Mark Zuckerberg Gets Dizzy, Appears Second Whistleblower With More Sadistic Allegations To Facebook

Facebook is again getting serious accusations about how the platform works. (photo: unsplash)

JAKARTA – A second Facebook whistleblower has emerged and filed a new set of allegations about how the social media platform conducts its business. First reported by the Washington Post, the person is a former member of Facebook's integrity team and says the company puts profit before efforts to combat hate speech and misinformation on its platform.

In a written statement, a copy of which was provided to The Verge, the complainant alleged, among other things, that a former Facebook communications official dismissed concerns about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, unknowingly being helped by Facebook.

Tucker Bounds said, according to affidavit, that the situation would be “a flash. Some legislators will be angry. Then in a few weeks they will move on to something else. Meanwhile we're printing money in the basement and we're doing fine.”

The whistleblower alleged discrepancies between Facebook's public statements and internal decision-making in other areas. They say that the Internet.org project to connect people in the "developing world" has an internal message whose goal is to give Facebook an impenetrable foothold and become the "only source of news" so they can gather data from untapped markets. .

Facebook told the Washington Post, "It sets a dangerous precedent to hang an entire story on one source making multiple claims without clear evidence."

A Facebook spokesperson filed a statement from the company without the name of the person attached to it, calling this reporting "underneath" the Post, and claiming "The point of this story is a false premise. Yes, we are a business and we make a profit, but the idea that we do it at the expense of safety or well-being, people misunderstand where our own commercial interests lie."

Many of the allegations by this whistleblower, who submitted a written statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission, echo concerns raised by Frances Haugen, the first whistleblower. Former Facebook employee Haugen provided internal documents to the Wall Street Journal for a series of reports on the platform. Most notably, internal research found Facebook was aware that its Instagram platform was toxic to teens.

Haugen testified before Congress on October 5 that Facebook had "repeatedly" misled the public about "what its own research on child safety and the efficacy of its artificial intelligence systems has revealed as a role in spreading divisive and extreme messages."

The increasing number of accusations that Facebook is taking advantage of the chaos in society, of course makes Mark Zuckerberg even more dizzy. No wonder he even more intends to change the name of their holding company.