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Live: Facebook Whistleblower Testifies at Senate Hearing | NBC News
We need more whistleblowers
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@cl lc BANN ADVERTISING NUFF SAID
@Flowers inherhair YOU DONT HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN AIRPORTS STUPID
@Jaime P Yeah – she’s no whistle blower tho — just an Op for Deep State D’s to CENSOR more…such a farce
She is a plant come probably cia cause she saying the samw thing eric snowden was saying but he in hiding humm
Thank you for bringing this to the public’s attention
I feel we should collect all info to and from all who are doing harm and press charges again as a single parent thank you and yes GOD BLESS
yeah – like the SS
lol
They’ve destroyed the kids self esteem and got them hooked. We’re faced with so many people who are afraid of rejection or hearing NO or hearing you’re not as relevant as your ego thinks you are. It’s unbelievable to many of us that grew up without reliance on social media. You develop self esteem through life lessons by being present not in a make believe world of tech. It’s sad.
Agreed and they are also responsible for the rise of dangerous BBL surgery’s in woman..
@Tina Bina da Detroit Hood Journalist Love your name. What’s a bbl surgery? Changing innies to outies.
The country urgently needs whistleblowers in the health care organizations, public and private.
Don’t you think you place a bit too much resposniability on fb, claiming they destroyed childrens self esteem? Do you know there are studies on masks and that is part of what they do, is distrub people’s self esteem ? How about scaring them constantly before during this bug agenda, people like Greta and UN pushing climate change, which btw is seven long decades of weather and climate engineering. These kids are with phone in hand at all times, that’s also a real problem, looking up Mind control and cell phones they watch netflix and movies, yt all the time, adverts and magazines. This woman is part of a censorship agenda and most of you are so naive you can’t discern real concern for children, they worry the children will learn the truth, and they can’t have that.
@M’sheArt2 aw, scared that your pathetic excuse of a source for BS claims such as these will go down?
The whole world needs an explanation from him, not just Americans.
@AVALON DEJAVU Boom! Somebody’s thinking.
After all these social medias became available people started to act weird. All over and I have used computers and internet from 1992. When there was msn messenger people where polite even if we disagreed on something. But msn messenger killed themselves because they also implemented ads all over. and then more and more people went away. I also used the messaging platform. ICQ at that time people where more rebellious if they didn’t like the platform they moved away. that’s it. But all those platforms at the time did not trrack those who didn’t use their services. Facebook and Twitter is very different they track even those who do not use their platform. And also the parents has a bit fault in this why they allow them to use it. Just because everyone else use it, doesn’t make it more correct. To give a extreme comparison so if lots of people running around in the street and beating up others, and you ask why you do that and they say hey everyone else do it. does it make more correct. Our brain is for free use it that’s why we have it. Be polite to others and respect their opinion is different. And use freedom of speech with respect .
The country urgently needs whistleblowers in the health care organizations, public and private.
SPLIT FACEBOOK UP INTO LIL PIECES HA
@Dorin Ciobanu BLOCKING IN CESNSORSHIP, SPLIT UP FACEBOOK
I’m so glad she stepped up. Her testimony wasn’t exaggerated nor did she cross lines she had no experience in. She provided internal documents shared widely and handled Cruz political topic with grace.
I hope more come forward and if anything, they, the engineers work together on a committee to support regulations long past due.
What’s been asked is possible but the topic is one deep rabbit hole.
@Pete Carroll Such petty and trivial comments can only come from petty and trivial brains.
@Arthur Frayn look at her background and those around her
@_Decadent _Descent another Trumpanzee sticks her head above the parapet
LoL…this is all a show.
@Pete Carroll You’re sorely mistaken.
Just remember people, if you aren’t paying for it, YOU are the product.
That’s just a capitalist rhetoric we don’t have to pay for the air we breath or being in nature but obviously they want to make us pay for that too.
@BigNasty your data is sold to marketing companies…this is nothing new
@meetpoorfor crowinsfo meanwhile you reply giving poster attention 🤣
@Rick Adis
Were you born “different?” I refer to him with an initial instead of the last name… and making that post is the only way to get through to some people. I’d be interested in hearing from you after you have recovered from what you have. (I hope it can be cured.)
Awww trolls… come in all forms!
And there is no cure.
@M’sheArt2 Join Facebook and exercise your option on what info u share. Tell them not to share your info and tell me how that works out.
If u close your account they will still keep your info and use it as they please. They r in control.
But privacy erosion has few people caring.
Enjoy your truth movement. Good day.
The country urgently needs whistleblowers in the health care organizations, public and private.
@Joe Smith she’s not naïve nor a real whistleblower, she is part of an agenda for more censorship.
I was a whistle blower in mental healthcare. They would listen to me and then they would sweep it under the rug. I was in mental healthcare for 33 years and I have seen horrific abuse. I went to the top, beyond the companies that I worked for. I went to government agencies, that were suppose to oversee abuse and neglect. They did nothing. A few people can only do so much. Mentally ill people deserve so much better. They are vulnerable human beings. They need way more advocacy.
@They Call Me Crazy EPSTAIN WAS A WHISTLE BLOWER
The country needs health care organizations as what we have now are disease detection, diagnosis and treatment venues. Health care starts at the end of our forks! No money in optimal nutrition though, which is why no media will EVER interview lifestyle doctors like Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. MIchael Klaper, Dr. Pam Popper, Dr. Milton Mills, and hundreds of others using plant-based foods to reverse the curse of the American diet.
My moma said if you aint got nothing good to say. Don’t say shyt. I’m gone take her advice. Here’s what I have to say.
They can’t control the algorithms now, How are they going to control them after singularity? I am VERY concerned where this AI is headed. We are setting ourselves up for a he’ll of a fall.
You should be, it replies now.
I am also.. She did at one point say that fb’s artificial intelligence isn’t “intelligent”, which I think is true. Idk the extent of your coding knowledge but I think the algorithms they use are basically codes that provide parameters for the processors that guide them to make decisions. The full extent of their capabilities are limited by the original coding, which is good 👍
I studied civil engineering a few years ago and had to learn some basic algorithm and coding languages like MATLAB and Excell VBA so that’s the extent of my understanding of computer learning.. It’s not alot, but it’s certainly a decent working understanding.
I agree with Musk, Micho Kaku, and what sounds like you that the capabilities of AI are projected to become more independent in the near future, so the time to set rules/regs to counteract that stuff is now!
I’m just saying all this to hopefully calm anxiety, but not to stop the movement toward ensuring future computers don’t escape our control!
Pure GREED ! How much money is enough ! Why does anyone need more money than they can spend in 20 lifetimes ???
Greed, power, selfishness !!!
Facebook could help so many, truly needy people ! People with real needs, not the entitled.
I love this…im so sick of hearing ppls shock over the years when they ask me why i dont have facebook or other online accounts…and i always say i like my privacy and i dont want to be on or available 24/7 to everyone everywhere and i find it sooo weird how popular it is!!!!!
Same
That’s always what I say too. No reason anyone should be able to know about me if I don’t know them; no reason they should be able to get a hold of me at any time whenever they feel.
And they made it seem like people who don’t have SM are weird or something is wrong with them.
@Krystle Day right! Go make real friends!
@GopLiarsRecount again So sad to feel such a need for Facebook. There are great people out there in life. Make real face to face friends. Online relationships not meeting face to face are not real. My parents and grandparents had happier lives without online.People have done this for generations! Everyone could easily better their lives wihout facebook.
We need an anti trust law right now.
The country urgently needs whistleblowers in the health care organizations, public and private.
How did that anti-trust thingy work out for Bill Gates and Micro&soft? He’s a doctor now eh pushing jabs which are actually genetic engineering. Yea sure we need another law in the land of the unlawful.
Facebook MUST ends it’s life to save next next and next generation’s life.
20 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.
So true
Until the Oasis is created
GOOD OBSERVATION!!! YOU’RE RIGHT!! Thank you!
Yes
Didn’t facebook publish their findings on how they were altering people’s moods a few years ago? Back then there wasn’t an uproar till a whistleblower came out. Why did it take so long? Something should have happened right away.
WE BECOME A “SKIP ADDS” AND “THUMBS UP” CIVILIZATION
It’s all a distraction 🤣
Morpheus : “Welcome to the world of the real”
When Facebook went down for just 5hours life almost stood still in Europe. 😀🏃
Interesting. I especially loved the part where he kept saying, “Facebook valued their own bank account more than they did their customers.” He kept saying it like it was a bad thing. I’m confused because I thought that’s what him and the other politicians in Washington did. It’s bad when other people do it but not when y’all do it? Ok, so does that mean after Big Tech you’re going to start going after politicians on both sides? Trust me, sir, to borrow a phrase, “They care more about their own bank accounts than they do their voters.” So, don’t be a hypocrite here. Go after the politicians who work for and protect corporate interests over their voters.
What God awful political theatre is this?
Not all politicians are corrupt, the same applies to law enforcement officers. Anyone with common sense actually knows this fact; regardless of political affiliation or ethnicity. The corruption is rampant; the list of current offenders is long. Facebook has crossed the line and yes it’s a bad thing. 🇺🇸
@SSJ Phenom
Parents are not as tech savvy as you, when your kids get older you will have more challenges as your teens out wit you, and get back up from DHS and school to be independent.
For instance, did you know that at age 12 DHS says kids have reproductive rights?
It’s great you monitor your kids, but every parent isn’t as smart as you.
@L T Parents who were born around the same time I was are infinitely more tech savy than the last generation. If it’s an issue though and they want to protect their kids then they need to learn. My mother learned about computers and everything when I was coming up and she’s still learning.
I agree Facebook has to face the music but parents can’t be let off the hook. If we do that then parenting is only going to get worse and worse. It already has. That’s why each new generation is softer and softer.
@Chuck Driver I never said all politicians but damnit the ones leading are or are you going to tell me right now that Moscow Mitch doesn’t protect corporate interests over his voter’s interests? Same with Schumer, Pelosi, and McCarthy.
@L T I’m also going to say this: I think anyone that brings a child into this world in this day and age and doesn’t know anything about tech and doesn’t want to learn anything about it is automatically setting themselves up to fail as a parent.
When my children were born, my wife and I researched and consumed every little piece of knowledge we could for anything that had to do with their safety. Safest vehicles, safest car seats, safest toys, best cribs, healthiest foods, and as they got older, how to keep them protected online.
This is what is required of a parent. Especially in this world now.
I have a solution: it’s the one I use – don’t use Facebook OR Instagram. At all. Ever.
It’s a worthless, negative, unrealistic presentation of how others live, and incites us to try to emulate them.
Well said
True