Whistleblower Arturo Bejar said the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp owner’s experts could easily stop recommending harmful content to youngsters, but choose not to.
A former Meta director has said he doesn’t think the tech giant cares if more young lives are lost due to posts on its social media platforms.
He said if Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to make Instagram “as free of self-harm content as we can make it, then it would happen within a few months”. He said: “They created this product that billions of people use, that opens in milliseconds and gives you a personally curated list of things that they think you’ll find interesting.
Asked if he thinks Meta cares if more people die because of harm they encounter on their platforms, he said: “I think they don’t. That is hard for me to say, but I just go by their actions.”
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