Facebook whistleblower to say former employer an ‘urgent threat’ to U.S

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen will appear before the U.S. Congress Tuesday, where she is set to sharply criticize her former employer as “one of the most urgent threats” facing the country, and to demand transparency about its operations in order to better regulate it. Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook’s civic misinformation team, says the social media giant keeps its algorithms and operations a secret.
“The core of the issue is that no one can understand Facebook’s destructive choices better than Facebook.” Haugen said Facebook had also done too little to prevent its platform from being used by people planning violence…. (Excerpts from  Reuters)