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:
I strongly believe in the sovereignty of the people with regard to corporations. If an individual lies to the public, that is entirely unacceptable. I want to make sure we contextualise the privileges that social media have today. Facebook is a powerful entity with very little transparency. It is not like a factory where one can put out a sensor and see is it polluting. The people in Facebook are the only ones who get to see the data, which means they have a higher degree of responsibility for telling the truth. The fact that they lie is even more egregious in that context. I totally believe they should be held responsible. I have forgotten what the Senator's first question was.
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