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Can Social Media and Democracy Co-exist? A Conversation with Frances Haugen (Podcast)
Mark Blyth | Rhodes Center Podcast – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2022

27 May 2022 – From 2019 to 2021, Frances Haugen worked as a Product Manager in Facebook’s Civic Integrity Department. During that time she got an inside view into how Facebook’s algorithms are deliberately designed to influence its users. She also saw something deeply worrying: that this influence was often used to grow Facebook’s profits at the expense of users’ safety and wellbeing.

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