Facebook Makes Media Blitz, Following Bombshell Whistleblower Leak.
On October 10, Facebook said it will implement new tools
to divert users away from harmful content, limit political content
and give parents more control on teen Instagram accounts.
The company’s vice president of global
affairs, Nick Clegg, appeared on several morning
news shows to address the changes. .
While speaking on ABC’s “This Week," Clegg said one measure
would urge users who are on Facebook’s platform Instagram
for long periods of time to “take a break.”.
He said another feature will encourage teens viewing content deemed harmful to their well-being to look at something else.
NBC reports that Clegg also said the company’s planned Instagram Kids represents part of the social media titan's solution to recent criticism.
We have no commercial incentive
to do anything other than try and make
sure that the experience is positive.
We can’t change human nature.
We always see bad things online.
We can do everything we can to try
to reduce and mitigate them, Nick Clegg, Facebook VP of Global Affairs, via NBC.
Clegg’s media appearances come
after the Senate testimony of whistleblower
Frances Haugen on October 5. .
NBC reports that Haugen told a Senate panel
that Facebook consistently puts
its own profits over users’ health and safety.
NBC reports that Haugen told a Senate panel
that Facebook consistently puts
its own profits over users’ health and safety.
On 'Meet the Press,' Clegg said Facebook is also looking into ways to reduce the presence of politics on Facebook for some users.
Our job is to mitigate and reduce the bad
and amplify the good, and I think those
investments, that technology and some
of that evidence of how little hate speech
there is compared to a few years ago,
shows that we are moving
in the right direction, Nick Clegg, Facebook VP of Global Affairs, via 'Meet the Press'