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Facebook Inc. will fuel more violent unrest around the world unless it stops its algorithms from pushing extreme and divisive content, whistle-blower Frances Haugen has told a British parliamentary committee.
With a focus on the US, the company was willfully blind to its impact on many markets where a lack of local-language staff meant it often failed to understand the toxic or dangerous nature of messages on its platform, she said.
Al Jazeera's Rory Challands reports.
With a focus on the US, the company was willfully blind to its impact on many markets where a lack of local-language staff meant it often failed to understand the toxic or dangerous nature of messages on its platform, she said.
Al Jazeera's Rory Challands reports.
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