Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 February 2022

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen

Ms Frances Haugen:

Trust is not given; it is earned. The way we trust people is that we must know them and see the patterns of their actions, and they earn our trust. Facebook has had scandals over and over again. The scandals are very consistent. They take the form of Facebook claiming the world is a certain way, an internal person sees the consequences of that lie and comes forward. As long as we see that pattern happening over and over again, we must ask what is going on. We need mandatory transparency whereby Facebook must disclose this information or we are not going to get where we need to get.

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