Nick Clegg, the company's vice president of policy and public affairs, wrote to Facebook employees in a memo Friday that “social media has had a big impact on society in recent years, and Facebook is often a place where much of this debate plays out. The Journal's stories, called “The Facebook Files,” painted a picture of a company focused on growth and its own interests instead of the public good.įacebook has tried to play down the research. The outage, for much of the planet, was no joke. With more than 2 billion users worldwide, WhatsApp is by far the most widely used instant messaging service in the world. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters.įacebook is going through a major crisis after the whistleblower who was the source of The Wall Street Journal's series of stories exposing the company's awareness of internal research into the negative effects of its products and decisions went public on “60 Minutes” on Sunday.įrances Haugen was identified in a “60 Minutes” interview Sunday as the woman who anonymously filed complaints with federal law enforcement that the company's own research shows how it magnifies hate and misinformation, leads to increased polarisation and that Instagram, specifically, can harm teenage girls' mental health. For many parts of the world, WhatsApp isn’t just some other way to text, it’s the primary way to communicate and even do business.
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