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Facebook Under Fire: The Whistleblower, The Outage, And The Future


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Last week, whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before Congress about Facebook's problems.

A leaked trove of documents revealed that the company purposely hid research about its platform's negative effects on mental health in teenagers. Haugen also claimed that the company stoked division by allowing disinformation on the platform to go unchecked.

All of this and a worldwide outage that made Facebook and its family of apps inaccessible for hours.

But the platform's reputation has been crumbling for years and calls for internet regulations have been renewed.

Is this the final straw? Or just the latest installment in the Facebook saga?

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