A Meta whistleblower testified before Congress Tuesday, raising concerns regarding safety issues at the tech conglomerate.
Arturo Béjar, a former director of engineering for Protect and Care at Facebook, spoke before the Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law and claimed he sent CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other higher ups an email on the matter but felt sufficient action was not taken, according to Engadget.
“Meta continues to publicly misrepresent the level and frequency of harm that users, especially children, experience on the platform,” Béjar said before the subcommittee Tuesday, according to Engadget. “And they have yet to establish a goal for actually reducing those harms and protecting children. It’s time that the public and parents understand the true level of harm posed by these ‘products’ and it’s time that young users have the tools to report and suppress online abuse.”
Béjar, who worked on a team focused on building “bullying tools for teens, suicide prevention, child safety, and other difficult moments that people go through where Facebook could help” as a director of engineering at Facebook from 2009 through 2015, according to his LinkedIn profile, addressed matters regarding young users on the platform in his email to Meta executives. Béjar sent that email in 2021, the same day, Engadget points out, Frances Haugen detailed to Congress how Meta could fix its safety issues. In his email, Béjar detailed the harassment his daughter experienced on...
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