It’s been a rough week for trillion-dollar Internet giant Facebook. Two days ago, the social media behemoth went dark…
It was offline for roughly six hours in the biggest outage the company has experienced since 2008. Facebook’s 2.9 billion users were forced to actually work and get their “news” from somewhere else.
Then yesterday, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before a Senate panel, telling lawmakers they must intervene to solve the “crisis” created by her former employer’s products. She said:
I saw that Facebook repeatedly encountered conflicts between its own profits and our safety. Facebook consistently resolved those conflicts in favor of its own profits. The result has been a system that amplifies division, extremism, and polarization – and undermining societies around the world.
Our own Dr. Ron Paul has been outspoken about the assaults........
