Ms Frances Haugen:

I want to remind people about their original dream of the Internet. I am an elderly millennial. I remember the Internet in the 1990s. The dream of the Internet was about the idea that anyone could reach out and impact people on the other side of the world. With systems that are more transparent, like Twitter, which has a fire hose, anyone in the world can analyse one tenth of all the public tweets. What happens when we open up and we say "We are going to give access and we are going to do this collaboratively", is that people come out of nowhere who help. There are easily 10,000 people who closely analyse that fire hose on Twitter. Because Facebook has chosen to be closed, however, it has both taken on a higher obligation because it is the only one that can currently solve these problems. It has made life much harder for itself. If we force Facebook to disclose more data, more people would take college classes where they would use that data. Yelp, for example, does this. Yelp has a data set where it lets people use its reviews. As a result, 18-year-olds learn how to work with rough data. Imagine if Facebook had 20,000 or 50,000 students around the world who are always looking at its data. We would all be safer because we had forced Facebook to be more transparent. That is how we are able to these things.