Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: Breaking Up Meta’s Monopoly Would Improve Service, Safety - Democracy Now!
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- Frances Haugenformer Facebook employee and whistleblower.
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- "The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook"
- "The Facebook Files"
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In one of its first major actions under the Trump administration, the Federal Trade Commission is arguing Meta has an illegal monopoly in social media and should be forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp. CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand Monday as the highly anticipated antitrust trial kicked off in Washington, D.C. If Meta loses the trial, it could be forced to sell off those platforms. “We’ve let one company, one man, influence the information environment for the world,” says Frances Haugen, former Facebook employee and whistleblower.
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