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Speaking confidently at a charged hearing, she \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043207218/whistleblower-to-congress-facebook-products-harm-children-and-weaken-democracy\">accused the company\u003c/a> of being aware of apparent harm to some teens from Instagram and being dishonest in its public fight against hate and misinformation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy,” Haugen said. “The company’s leadership knows how to make Facebook and Instagram safer but won’t make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Congressional action is needed,” she said. “They won’t solve this crisis without your help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former employee challenging the social network giant with 2.8 billion users worldwide and nearly $1 trillion in market value is a 37-year-old data expert from Iowa with a degree in computer engineering and a master’s degree in business from Harvard. Prior to being recruited by Facebook in 2019, she worked for 15 years at tech companies including Google, Pinterest and Yelp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haugen said the company has acknowledged publicly that integrity controls were crucially needed for its systems that stoke the engagement of users, but then it disabled some of those controls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dialogue with receptive senators of both parties, Haugen, who focused on algorithm products in her work at Facebook, explained the importance to the company of algorithms that govern what shows up on users’ news feeds. She said a 2018 change to the content flow contributed to more divisiveness and ill will in a network ostensibly created to bring people closer together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the enmity that the new algorithms were feeding, she said Facebook found that they helped keep people coming back — a pattern that helped the social media giant sell more of the digital ads that generate most of its revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senators agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has profited off spreading misinformation and disinformation and sowing hate,” said Democratic Sen. 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But “in the end, the buck stops with Mark,” she said referring to Zuckerberg, who controls more than 50% of Facebook’s voting shares. “There is no one currently holding Mark accountable but himself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)\"]‘Facebook’s answers to Facebook’s destructive impact always seems to be more Facebook.’[/pullquote]Haugen said she believed that Zuckerberg was familiar with some of the internal research showing concerns for potential negative impacts of Instagram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government needs to step in with stricter oversight of the company, Haugen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like fellow tech giants Google, Amazon and Apple, Facebook has enjoyed minimal regulation. A number of bipartisan legislative proposals for the tech industry address data privacy, protection of young people and anti-competitive conduct. But getting new laws through Congress is a heavy slog. The Federal Trade Commission has adopted a stricter stance recently toward Facebook and other companies.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThe subcommittee is examining Facebook’s use of information from its own researchers on Instagram that could indicate potential harm for some of its young users, especially girls, while it publicly downplayed the negative impacts\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some of the teens devoted to Instagram, the peer pressure generated by the visually focused platform has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13897329/facebook-calls-links-to-depression-inconclusive-these-researchers-disagree\">led to mental health and body-image problems\u003c/a> and, in some cases, eating disorders and suicidal thoughts, the research leaked by Haugen showed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One internal study cited 13.5% of teen girls saying Instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse and 17% of teen girls saying it makes eating disorders worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the drive for user engagement, Haugen testified, “Facebook knows that they are leading young users to anorexia content … It’s just like cigarettes. 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She also has filed complaints with federal authorities alleging that Facebook’s own research shows that it amplifies hate, misinformation and political unrest but the company hides what it knows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company intentionally hides vital information from the public, from the U.S. government and from governments around the world,” Haugen said. “The documents I have provided to Congress prove that Facebook has repeatedly misled the public about what its own research reveals about the safety of children, the efficacy of its artificial intelligence systems and its role in spreading divisive and extreme messages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After recent reports in The Wall Street Journal based on documents she leaked to the newspaper raised a public outcry, Haugen revealed her identity in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview aired Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the public relations debacle over the Instagram research grew last week, Facebook put on hold its work on a kids’ version of Instagram, which the company says is meant mainly for tweens age 10 to 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haugen said that Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation and incitement to violence after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump last year, alleging that contributed to the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the November election, Facebook dissolved the civic integrity unit where Haugen had been working. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of new police reform bills into law Thursday during a press conference in Gardena, including creating higher education standards for officers, requiring officers to intervene if they see a colleague using excessive force, banning certain holds that cause asphyxiation and laying out a process that will decertify officers who are found guilty of serious policy or criminal violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right here at this park is where Kenneth Ross Jr. lost his life,” said state Sen. Steven Bradford, D-Gardena, in the Rowley Gym next to Rowley Memorial Park during the press conference. “Instead of sending a crisis team, he was shot in the back and killed in broad daylight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kenneth Ross Jr., a 25-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by a Gardena police officer in 2018. 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A year later, he fled the U.S. and is believed to be back in Liberia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that he's back home, some 30 years later, it's long past time for Liberia to bring justice to the survivors, Sarkarati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They have a duty under international law to provide accountability,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CJA is pushing for Liberia to set up a special tribunal to adjudicate the church massacre incident and other civil war-era atrocities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]But the fact that Thomas returned home shows he believes he will be safe there, Sarkarati said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the Liberian embassy in Washington, D.C., did not respond to a request for comment about the judge's decision and whether the country planned to further investigate or prosecute the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hearing will be held in the coming months to determine how much Thomas owes the survivors, with the possibility he could be ordered to pay them millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is hard to put a number behind these types of atrocities,\" Sarkarati said. \"The victims are not pursuing these cases for the award amount. 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Although it does not capture the incident with Porter, it does show the deputy talking to Porter’s father, Joseph Powell, who also was detained and handcuffed while deputies searched the family’s car and ran the license plates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That footage shows Powell, 61, handcuffed in the back of a police car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Man, y’all jumped her, why?” he asks the deputies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McDowell tells him she didn’t know what Porter, his daughter, was doing. Finally, they remove Powell’s handcuffs and let him return to the car to look after the three little girls that have been left alone in the back seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit states the deputies did not find any evidence of criminal activity in the car. Porter had moved from Maryland and forgotten to change the front plate, according to the suit. The police reports do not mention these details. 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And they did not do it the right way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mohamed Aldahmi watched the vigil crowd from outside the Upstairs Underground Smoke Shop at the corner of Fruitvale Avenue and Blossom Street, where the shooting took place. Aldahmi was working inside during the shooting. He said Cortez was buying a drink and some snacks at the store when an officer wearing a bulletproof vest came into the store with his gun drawn, yelling, “Get down!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aldahmi said he and his 21-year-old cousin Issa, who was visiting him in the shop, ran into a storage area at the back of the store and laid on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just ran to the back to save my life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he was lying on the floor, Aldahmi said, he heard a gunshot. Some time after that he heard police knocking on the door between the cashiers area and the rest of the store telling him to come out. 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