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Frances Haugen

@franceshaugen
44 posts
2024-02-06
It's so easy to focus on just the scary parts of how fast technology is advancing, so I try to light up the exciting parts when I stumble across them. AI gave this new portal to the past - and this historic milestone is just 5% of one of thousands of scrolls! 🌋 📜 🤯...
2024-02-06 View on X
Bloomberg

How researchers used AI to read the Herculaneum papyri, charred in 79 AD by Mount Vesuvius' eruption, potentially rewriting key parts of ancient world history

Well, make a 3D CT scan, use the images to virtually unfold, recognize the ink drops, and off you go.  Amazing work by three students (from Berlin, Nebraska and ETH Zurich). … X: N...

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2024-02-01
1/ Today the Judiciary is holding a hearing confronting the CEOs of Meta, X, Snapchat, TikTok, and Discord confronting them on their negligence and failure to protect children online. It should be a shocking and historic few hours.🧵 https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/ ... [video]
2024-02-01 View on X
TechCrunch

Microsoft and X say they support the Kids Online Safety Act; Meta, Discord, and TikTok demur, citing criticism from groups or supporting only some parts of KOSA

how much they care & the promises—are empty. It is the voices & stories of the advocates who joined me today that will create real change. We will win this fight for the Kids Onlin...

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9/ Now @MarkZuckerman is up. @LindseyGrahamSC pointed out in his opening that many of the basic safety features Mark is now listing were launched on @instagram in just the last week or two - right before Mark would need to testify on the committee.
2024-02-01 View on X
Washington Post

A recap of the US Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on kids' online safety, with testimony from the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord

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1/ Today the Judiciary is holding a hearing confronting the CEOs of Meta, X, Snapchat, TikTok, and Discord confronting them on their negligence and failure to protect children online. It should be a shocking and historic few hours.🧵 https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/ ... [video]
2024-02-01 View on X
Washington Post

A recap of the US Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on kids' online safety, with testimony from the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord

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9/ Now @MarkZuckerman is up. @LindseyGrahamSC pointed out in his opening that many of the basic safety features Mark is now listing were launched on @instagram in just the last week or two - right before Mark would need to testify on the committee.
2024-02-01 View on X
TechCrunch

Microsoft and X say they support the Kids Online Safety Act; Meta, Discord, and TikTok demur, citing criticism from groups or supporting only some parts of KOSA

how much they care & the promises—are empty. It is the voices & stories of the advocates who joined me today that will create real change. We will win this fight for the Kids Onlin...

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2023-11-08
13/ Arturo responding to @SenJohnKennedy - “In your words senator, ‘social media makes it easier to be an a-hole’.”
2023-11-08 View on X
CNN

Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …

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2/ Facebook/Instagrams's safety features are “placebos” - they look like safety features, but they don't accomplish anything. They're intentionally designed that way.
2023-11-08 View on X
CNN

Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …

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4/ He returned to @Meta to work on @instagram in 2019 because his daughter was having horrifying experiences on @instagram . He was thought they must not know what was going on - he was terrified to find out they already knew, they just decided not to act.
2023-11-08 View on X
CNN

Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …

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20/ 13 year olds are afraid to report bad behavior because they're afraid of getting other people in trouble. @instagram has known this for ten years. You have to proactively offer help and resources when children are exposed to harm.
2023-11-08 View on X
CNN

Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …

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34/ And we're done!! I second @SenBlumenthal 's thanks for Arturo's precision and his huge sacrifice to advance the safety of children around world. Let's stop talking about safety and act. The debate is over. Pass the Kids Online Safety Act.
2023-11-08 View on X
CNN

Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …

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3/ Arturo Bejar was the senior engineering and product leader at Facebook responsible for its efforts to keep users safe and supported from 2009 to 2015 - he ran Protect & Care. Other than senior executives, he's one of the most veteran social media congressional witnesses ever.
2023-11-08 View on X
CNN

Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …

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6/ Try reporting a predator account and see if @instagram acts on it, they won't. They claim automated systems will keep kids safe, yet they don't detect the vast majority of exploitative content.
2023-11-08 View on X
CNN

Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …

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9/ Arturo brought the results of his survey of @instagram's children to at least 20 executives and none of them acted on it. He has the emails to prove it.
2023-11-08 View on X
CNN

Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …

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14/ If Mark Zuckerberg had to say during his quarterly earnings call after he announced the company's profit, “and X% of children reported unwanted sexual advances”, that number would go down.
2023-11-08 View on X
CNN

Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …

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1/ Today's Senate >Judiciary< hearing today is 🔥. https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/ ... Proof that Meta intentional lied to Congress about the safety of kids on @instagram & @facebook
2023-11-08 View on X
CNN

Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …

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@Meta @instagram 5/ Instagram is the largest directory of children that has existed in history. A directory with pictures that will directly connect you with children you don't know.
2023-11-08 View on X
CNN

Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …

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26/ How many kids have to get sick from batch of ice cream before we investigate? Right now @instagram is standing next to kids while they have bad experiences - they could act in that moment, immediately.
2023-11-08 View on X
CNN

Former Meta consultant Arturo Béjar's Senate testimony: Meta executives ignored warnings of harms to teens and carefully crafted metrics to downplay the issue

Meta's top executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ignored warnings for years about harms to teens on its platforms such as Instagram …

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2023-10-25
Today is history in the making. 80%+ of the states in the US are banding together to sue for safer social media for our children. 🎉 I'm in DC and Boston this week - happy to comment or provide context on this giant leap forward in tech accountability. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-10-25 View on X
CNBC

A bipartisan group of 42 attorneys general sue Meta in the US, alleging that Facebook and Instagram features are addictive and aimed at kids and teens

- A bipartisan group of 42 attorneys general is suing Meta, alleging features on Facebook and Instagram are addictive and are aimed at kids and teens.

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2022-04-26
Censorship ≠ the solution. 👀many unknowns w/private #twitter I hope @elonmusk leans into non-content based safety solutions. Solutions exist. It's time to build them. Better social media=safety systems that scale, for diverse languages & honor our autonomy/dignity.
2022-04-26 View on X
The Verge

Elon Musk says he wants to improve Twitter by “making the algorithms open source to increase trust, defeating the spam bots, and authenticating all humans”

and at some point it should be studied with the perspective of some temporal distance - but the neediest, most ardent, and most passionate censorship crusaders are the tattletale-e...

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Censorship ≠ the solution. 👀many unknowns w/private #twitter I hope @elonmusk leans into non-content based safety solutions. Solutions exist. It's time to build them. Better social media=safety systems that scale, for diverse languages & honor our autonomy/dignity.
2022-04-26 View on X
CNBC

Twitter agrees to be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk” for $54.20 per share in cash; the ~$44B deal requires shareholder and regulatory approval

- Twitter's board accepted billionaire Elon Musk's offer to buy the social media company and take it private, the company confirmed.

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