Washington: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to portray his social media platform as a victim after a former employee accused it of prioritizing profit over users’ safety, former US intelligence contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden said on Wednesday.
Ex-Facebook product manager and whistleblower Frances Haugen told a congressional testimony on Tuesday that the social network was allegedly aware it inflicted harm on the mental health of teenagers but did not do much to prevent content promoting “hate and division,” as well as content that created a toxic environment for teenage girls. On Wednesday, Zuckerberg denied the claims.
“Zuckerberg responds to a global outage and national scandal by claiming @Facebook is the real victim here, and modestly proposing Congress consider: A) legally restricting teen use of internet services B) identify verification mandates C) limiting teen privacy,” Snowden tweeted.
Similar proposals are tantamount to trying to invite Congress to “consider limiting teen secretion of tears,” the whistleblower added.
The claim against the tech giant comes after Facebook suffered outage of more than six hours on Monday, which also disrupted some of its other services, including Instagram and WhatsApp. US media, citing Facebook’s recovery team, reported that the outage was caused by a border gateway protocol update.
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