Ms Frances Haugen:

I worked on Google+ long ago, and people like to make fun of Google+. Every year the European Union exports billions of dollars and advertising dollars to Facebook. That is money that leaves the continent. It cost less than €500 million to build Google+ and that was with incredibly well compensated engineers in Mountain View, California. Europe has options. We should not think about these systems as being impossibly complex. Europe could lead the way in saying it deserves to have publicly governed and publicly produced transparent social media. That is a thing Europe always could be doing. It has choices.