In a 60 Minutes report, Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, “conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook.”

Five take away quotes from the report includes:

“The version of Facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart and causing ethnic violence around the world.”

“There were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook. And Facebook, over and over again, chose to optimize for its own interests, like making more money.”

“Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they’ll click on less ads, they’ll make less money.”

“One of the consequences of how Facebook is picking out that content today is it is — optimizing for content that gets engagement, or reaction. But its own research is showing that content that is hateful, that is divisive, that is polarizing, it’s easier to inspire people to anger than it is to other emotions.”

“No one at Facebook is malevolent, but the incentives are misaligned.”

Yvad Billings, Readers Bureau, Contributor

Edited by Jesus Chan

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