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Or noises that could just as easily be the wind, or raccoons mating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that initial taste, he was hooked on something bigger than fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s weird, because I 100% believe, but I just want more,” Huesca said. “So the fact that at least I can get some sort of proof to know that there is life after death, it’s like comfort, so to say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894157 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51992_IMG_3761-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A wide and ornate driveway get to Spadra cemetery which has letters spelling S P A D R A across the bars. The photo is tinted sepia and yellow.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51992_IMG_3761-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51992_IMG_3761-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51992_IMG_3761-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51992_IMG_3761-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51992_IMG_3761-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to Spadra Cemetery in Pomona. Beware. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But some of the interactions get a little too close for comfort, like the time he took a late-night trip to a sanatorium in Kentucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever I had seen there followed me back home and was trying to attach itself to me,” he said. “It was really bad emotionally, where I was close to not ghost hunting anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why did he continue?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a passion of mine. It’s something that I just love doing and I cannot stop doing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we’re doing it at Pomona’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pomonahistorical.org/spadra-cemetery\">Spadra\u003c/a> Cemetery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spadra is a small, forgotten place wedged against the roaring California State Route 57 freeway. It was established as Spadra Cemetry in 1868 and its last burial was in 1965. (Though it is open for tours.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cemetery is home to a little more than 200 permanent residents and a handful of unhoused people who camp out beneath the gnarled oaks and tall pepper trees that droop like weeping willows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The place radiates a vibe that falls somewhere between sad and creepy. Most of the tombstones are missing, or broken off and jagged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a mouthful of bad teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has long been a happy hunting ground for anyone with a Ford F-150 and a chain,” said Deborah Clifford, president of the Historical Society of Pomona Valley, which owns the cemetery. “You roll in, lasso a headstone and take it with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spadra isn’t usually open to the public, but people break in looking for more than just headstones. They come for the ghosts. After a night in the place, many file breathless Yelp reviews on the terrorizing entities they experience after dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a Yelp post from Jonathan R.: “After walking around with a bunch of friends for a while, we decided to leave. However, on our way out the girls in the group ran out from feeling a hand grab them. One girl stayed behind, and once we were out she took a picture of the exit and what we found in the picture was really scary. A tall slim like figure with a very distorted face appeared in the picture. Ever since then I have not gone back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yelper Rudy M. was equally disturbed: “We were on the 10 freeway almost back home about 20 minutes later from leaving & I felt this overwhelming feeling of death. I felt so panicked & controlled, like something attacked me in [my] homie’s car. I asked my grandpa to pray for me once I got home. This place is truly haunted and demonic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, they swear by it,” said Clifford with a laugh, but, “it’s a place, that’s all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She should know. Clifford has spent a lot of Halloween’s at Spadra giving five-hour tours of the place, a fascinating glimpse into the Old West of early Pomona through visiting its dead. She has yet to be followed home by anything demonic or otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t discourage Victor Huesca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894158 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51996_IMG_3832-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='A bald man in a baggy t-shirt and loose pants standing at the edge of a sidewalk in the center of the frame with trees in the background. The photo appears to be taken in a \"night\" mode, and his eyes are shining unnaturally.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51996_IMG_3832-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51996_IMG_3832-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51996_IMG_3832-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51996_IMG_3832-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51996_IMG_3832-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Owings at Spadra Cemetery in Pomona, near where he says he saw someone who died 1921. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s ready to take on the darkness, armed only with a lantern and two ghost-detecting energy meters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re about the size of TV remotes. When paranormal energy is near, he said, one lights up. The other gets a bit more emotional, squealing out a high-pitched sci-fi tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sun sinks and the moon rises, we set out among the graves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our first stop is ground zero for supernatural activity here, the grave of a man who died in 1921.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“James Fryer is one of the famous ghosts here at Spadra,” explained Huesca. “He’ll make noises, he’ll show himself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wasn’t Huesca’s first visit to Fryer’s resting place. The last time he came, Huesca says Fryer wasn’t doing much resting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out of nowhere I felt strange, and from the corner of my eye I saw this dark figure just look over my shoulder. It either wanted me to get out or make itself known but it was really creepy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we waited for the dark figure. And we waited some more. Huesca summoned the spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you here James? … We just want to communicate with you James … Can you light up the device I have in my hand?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after five minutes of this, it looked like Fryer was a no show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not having it right now,” said Huesca. But he’s not giving up. “Is there anybody else here? Anybody want to communicate with us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894155 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51994_IMG_3783-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A sepia toned photo of gravesites with the remains of tombstones. Trees are in the background, and succulent plants dot the landscape.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51994_IMG_3783-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51994_IMG_3783-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51994_IMG_3783-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51994_IMG_3783-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51994_IMG_3783-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spadra Cemetery in Pomona, where State Route 57 is next door and the tombstones are flat or long gone to vandals. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huesca’s pleas fell on deaf, dead ears. The ghost meter didn’t squeal, and no shadowy figures looked over our shoulders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But off in the shadows, there was someone. He was picking up trash. Since ghosts don’t care about litter, this was, presumably, a living human. Indeed, it was one Wayne Owings, who said he’s a local and has been here countless times. He said he doesn’t believe in ghosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then he said this: “I seen him. I ain’t lying. Heard something and I looked. Standing right there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It seems Owings had an encounter with a man dressed in a black, old-fashioned suit, complete with vest and watch fob. Did he think that was the ghost of Fryer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yeah. Sure was nobody else,” Owings said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spooky, yes, but second hand. We decided to call it a night at Spadra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just a couple miles away, there’s another place that just may just be the portal to the underworld that we’d been seeking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a Mexican fast-food restaurant. Their chicken is crazy good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you search for hauntings in Pomona, you’ll discover that this place is allegedly ripe with strange activity. Doors are said to slam on their own. There are supposedly footsteps heard where no human is walking. And back there among the guacamole and grilled thighs, word is you can hear disembodied voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why is it haunted? I don’t know. But, it says so on the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the drive-thru, I ordered two tacos and ask the disembodied voice emerging from the speaker if the place is haunted. The voice paused and said, “No. Proceed to the window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, it’s all about being persistent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor and I went in and I told them what we’re looking for. The manager politely suggested we do our ghost hunting out in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that brief moment inside, however, Huesca’s meter was on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His face looked like a kid’s on Christmas morning. That is, if that kid had asked Santa for communication from a dead person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It actually spiked up,” gushed Huesca. “The [meter] spiked up to yellow, and I didn’t even see it do that at the cemetery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What does that mean?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means there’s something around, it detected some sort of energy!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not exactly a floating, hairy arm, but after a ghost-free night in an old cemetery, “some sort of energy” in a fast food joint is better than nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, it’s not the full-throttle paranormal juggernaut Huesca had hoped for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really wanted you to experience something,” he said, “but it’s part of the ghost hunting experience. Sometimes you’ll get something, sometimes you won’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, I got something: two tacos.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s never tried to reach his father. “It was something I felt I wouldn’t know how to react to if I somehow contacted his spirit. I always just left that alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he grew up, Huesca became a fan of horror movies. That led to an interest in ghost-hunting TV shows. As a teenager, he bought paranormal investigation gear online and jumped into the field, looking for supernatural action. Now he’s got his own \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/c/BarrierBeyond\">YouTube\u003c/a> channel, “BARRIER BEYOND,” that chronicles his paranormal adventures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huesca’s first trip was to a derelict hospital in Downey. He hit a haunted trifecta — hearing voices, footsteps and screams. He’s hit locations throughout Southern California and traveled the country searching out spirit contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Huesca, his hobby isn’t just some frivolous thrill ride chasing otherworldly noises down dank hallways. Or noises that could just as easily be the wind, or raccoons mating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that initial taste, he was hooked on something bigger than fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s weird, because I 100% believe, but I just want more,” Huesca said. “So the fact that at least I can get some sort of proof to know that there is life after death, it’s like comfort, so to say.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894157\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894157 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51992_IMG_3761-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A wide and ornate driveway get to Spadra cemetery which has letters spelling S P A D R A across the bars. The photo is tinted sepia and yellow.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51992_IMG_3761-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51992_IMG_3761-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51992_IMG_3761-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51992_IMG_3761-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51992_IMG_3761-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to Spadra Cemetery in Pomona. Beware. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But some of the interactions get a little too close for comfort, like the time he took a late-night trip to a sanatorium in Kentucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever I had seen there followed me back home and was trying to attach itself to me,” he said. “It was really bad emotionally, where I was close to not ghost hunting anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why did he continue?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a passion of mine. It’s something that I just love doing and I cannot stop doing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we’re doing it at Pomona’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.pomonahistorical.org/spadra-cemetery\">Spadra\u003c/a> Cemetery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spadra is a small, forgotten place wedged against the roaring California State Route 57 freeway. It was established as Spadra Cemetry in 1868 and its last burial was in 1965. (Though it is open for tours.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cemetery is home to a little more than 200 permanent residents and a handful of unhoused people who camp out beneath the gnarled oaks and tall pepper trees that droop like weeping willows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The place radiates a vibe that falls somewhere between sad and creepy. Most of the tombstones are missing, or broken off and jagged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a mouthful of bad teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has long been a happy hunting ground for anyone with a Ford F-150 and a chain,” said Deborah Clifford, president of the Historical Society of Pomona Valley, which owns the cemetery. “You roll in, lasso a headstone and take it with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spadra isn’t usually open to the public, but people break in looking for more than just headstones. They come for the ghosts. After a night in the place, many file breathless Yelp reviews on the terrorizing entities they experience after dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a Yelp post from Jonathan R.: “After walking around with a bunch of friends for a while, we decided to leave. However, on our way out the girls in the group ran out from feeling a hand grab them. One girl stayed behind, and once we were out she took a picture of the exit and what we found in the picture was really scary. A tall slim like figure with a very distorted face appeared in the picture. Ever since then I have not gone back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yelper Rudy M. was equally disturbed: “We were on the 10 freeway almost back home about 20 minutes later from leaving & I felt this overwhelming feeling of death. I felt so panicked & controlled, like something attacked me in [my] homie’s car. I asked my grandpa to pray for me once I got home. This place is truly haunted and demonic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, they swear by it,” said Clifford with a laugh, but, “it’s a place, that’s all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She should know. Clifford has spent a lot of Halloween’s at Spadra giving five-hour tours of the place, a fascinating glimpse into the Old West of early Pomona through visiting its dead. She has yet to be followed home by anything demonic or otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t discourage Victor Huesca.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894158 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51996_IMG_3832-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt='A bald man in a baggy t-shirt and loose pants standing at the edge of a sidewalk in the center of the frame with trees in the background. The photo appears to be taken in a \"night\" mode, and his eyes are shining unnaturally.' width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51996_IMG_3832-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51996_IMG_3832-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51996_IMG_3832-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51996_IMG_3832-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51996_IMG_3832-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wayne Owings at Spadra Cemetery in Pomona, near where he says he saw someone who died 1921. \u003ccite>(Peter Gilstrap)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He’s ready to take on the darkness, armed only with a lantern and two ghost-detecting energy meters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re about the size of TV remotes. When paranormal energy is near, he said, one lights up. The other gets a bit more emotional, squealing out a high-pitched sci-fi tone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the sun sinks and the moon rises, we set out among the graves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our first stop is ground zero for supernatural activity here, the grave of a man who died in 1921.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“James Fryer is one of the famous ghosts here at Spadra,” explained Huesca. “He’ll make noises, he’ll show himself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This wasn’t Huesca’s first visit to Fryer’s resting place. The last time he came, Huesca says Fryer wasn’t doing much resting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out of nowhere I felt strange, and from the corner of my eye I saw this dark figure just look over my shoulder. It either wanted me to get out or make itself known but it was really creepy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So we waited for the dark figure. And we waited some more. Huesca summoned the spirit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Are you here James? … We just want to communicate with you James … Can you light up the device I have in my hand?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after five minutes of this, it looked like Fryer was a no show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not having it right now,” said Huesca. But he’s not giving up. “Is there anybody else here? Anybody want to communicate with us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11894155\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11894155 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/RS51994_IMG_3783-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A sepia toned photo of gravesites with the remains of tombstones. 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The voice paused and said, “No. Proceed to the window.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, it’s all about being persistent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor and I went in and I told them what we’re looking for. The manager politely suggested we do our ghost hunting out in the parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that brief moment inside, however, Huesca’s meter was on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His face looked like a kid’s on Christmas morning. 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But speaking at the company’s Connect virtual reality conference, Zuckerberg said the time had come to overhaul Facebook’s identity to reflect its broader ambitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is time for us to adopt a new company brand to encompass everything that we do,” he said. “From now on we’re going to be metaverse first, not Facebook first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seventeen years after Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, the company’s brand has been badly dented by a succession of crises, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/02/17/586690342/mueller-indictment-of-russian-operatives-details-playbook-of-information-warfare\">Russian interference\u003c/a> in the 2016 election to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/24/741282397/facebook-to-pay-5-billion-to-settle-ftc-privacy-case\">Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal\u003c/a>, which became public in 2018, to last month’s damaging \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1049015366/the-facebook-papers-what-you-need-to-know\">revelations\u003c/a> from a former employee turned \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039\">whistleblower\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even as the company has been pummeled by a wave of critical news coverage about the harms the platform has perpetuated, based on the recently released trove of internal documents, Zuckerberg has unapologetically kept his focus on the metaverse, describing it on Thursday as the company’s new “North Star.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says the metaverse is the next big computing platform to which people’s attention, and dollars, will shift in the coming years. And he wants the newly christened Meta to play a prime role in creating it, and turning it into big business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Building our social media apps will always be an important focus for us. But right now, our brand is so tightly linked to one product that it can’t possibly represent everything that we’re doing today, let alone in the future,” Zuckerberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>So just what is the metaverse anyway?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg announced the new name in a glitzy video presentation that served as an explainer about the metaverse, a futuristic and vaguely defined concept that’s become a Silicon Valley buzzword in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The term metaverse was coined by science fiction writer \u003ca href=\"https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/neal-stephenson-metaverse-snow-crash-silicon-valley-virtual-reality\">Neal Stephenson\u003c/a> in his 1992 novel “Snow Crash\u003cem>.” \u003c/em>Enthusiasts use it to refer to immersive virtual spaces where people can \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/05/13/video-games-isolation\">play games\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/24/843631981/travis-scotts-fortnite-event-draws-record-audience\">attend concerts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-launches-horizon-workrooms-virtual-reality-app/\">meet with colleagues\u003c/a> and buy various \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-16/non-fungible-tokens-and-the-metaverse-are-digital-fashion-s-next-frontiers\">digital goods\u003c/a> and services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"facebook\"]Facebook demonstrated many of those experiences on Thursday: showing Zuckerberg riding a virtual reality electric hydrofoil (in a nod to his \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/11/mark-zuckerberg-hydrofoil-photos-what-is-hydrofoiling.html\">real-life hobby\u003c/a>), fencing with a hologram, and walking through a 3D rendering of his “home space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Facebook told investors its spending on virtual reality and other next-generation products and services will take a $10 billion bite out of its overall operating profit this year. It also announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/18/1047033994/facebook-metaverse-10-000-workers-europe-virtual-reality\">plans to hire 10,000 workers in Europe\u003c/a> over the next five years to build the metaverse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, Zuckerberg said he expects to invest “many billions of dollars for years to come,” painting a vision of the future where a billion people will use the metaverse and it will generate hundreds of billions of dollars in digital commerce — while acknowledging that goal remains “a long way off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fully committed to this,” Zuckerberg said. “It is the next chapter of our work and, we believe, for the internet overall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a nod to Facebook’s long run of crises, Zuckerberg devoted part of the presentation to emphasizing that the company will prioritize privacy and safety as it builds its new virtual services and hardware.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Privacy standards will be built into the metaverse from Day One,” he said. “One of the lessons I’ve internalized from the last five years is we need to emphasize these principles from the start.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Potential key to the company’s existence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Staying on top of the next big thing in tech is about more than just Zuckerberg’s interest in Silicon Valley’s latest fad: It’s about his company’s continued existence, which depends on attracting younger users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The leaked internal documents show Facebook is worried about \u003ca href=\"http://d/\">losing relevance\u003c/a> as its user base grows older. \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-25/facebook-files-show-growth-struggles-as-young-users-in-u-s-decline\">People under 30 are spending less time on the platform\u003c/a>, posting less and sending fewer messages, according to an internal report prepared in March and reported on by Bloomberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Instagram, which the company views as a pipeline for younger users who will eventually age into its other apps, is losing teenagers to other social media platforms — \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/16/technology/instagram-teens.html\">a phenomenon the company identified as an “existential threat,”\u003c/a> The New York Times reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zuckerberg told investors on Monday he’s reorienting the company around appealing to young adults age 18 to 29, rather than the older crowd that has become its core. He cited threats including short-video app TikTok, which he said is “one of the most effective competitors that we have ever faced.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s big corporate overhaul comes as Congress threatens to pass tougher regulations on the tech industry, with some lawmakers saying it has grown so big and powerful that it’s like Big Tobacco was in its heyday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Facebook is going through so much turmoil, so much negativity” that the name change risks looking like “you are trying to hide something,” said Prashant Malaviya, a marketing professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Changing names often yields mixed results\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Other companies have changed their names in times of crisis with mixed results. In 2001, when Marlboro cigarette maker Philip Morris announced plans to rename itself Altria, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner accused the company of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/16/business/philip-morris-to-change-name-to-altria.html\">“running away from tobacco.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malaviya says the Altria rebranding worked at the corporate level — but he points out the company never attempted to change the name of the product itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, the Facebook social network, known internally as the “big blue app,” isn’t going anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Facebook brand is going to continue to exist. The app will be there. 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"content": "\u003cp>Lawmakers in the Senate hammered representatives from Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube on Tuesday in a combative hearing about whether the tech giants do enough to keep children safe online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It marked the first time Snapchat and TikTok have landed in the hot seat in Washington, D.C., and for nearly four hours lawmakers pressed the officials about how the apps have been misused to promote bullying, worsen eating disorders and help teens buy dangerous drugs or engage in reckless behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing was convened by the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security — the same panel that brought \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043377310/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-congress\">Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen\u003c/a> to testify earlier this month about the thousands of pages of internal company documents she has shared with Congress, regulators and the press. Haugen says the documents show how the social network places profits over public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haugen’s disclosures about Facebook underscored the potential harms of the platform: its ability to amplify misinformation and how Facebook’s own research showed that Instagram can worsen mental health and body-image issues for young people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given how enormously popular Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube are with teens, lawmakers expressed deep worry about the platforms having the ability to hurt users’ self-image and contribute to other mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his opening remarks, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said social media firms claiming they are distinct from Facebook is not going to cut it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being different from Facebook is not a defense,” said Blumenthal, who leads the subcommittee. “That bar is in the gutter. It’s not a defense to say that you are different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., offered an even blunter assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is clear: Big Tech preys on children and teens to make more money,” Markey said. “Now is the time for the legislative solutions to these problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are four takeaways from the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. Lawmakers say that until incentives change, social media will be a ‘race to the bottom.’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For the youngest users, Blumenthal said, social media companies have a perverse incentive to keep eyeballs glued on their apps, regardless of what kind of content is eventually served up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we want is not a race to the bottom, but a race to the top,” Blumenthal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For teens and other young people using social media, being optimized for engagement can make social media apps addicting and lead users to content that is not age-appropriate or is harmful, the lawmakers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. 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Still, the app has a responsibility to give parents time-management and “take a break” tools, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11891063\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For TikTok, Beckerman said, “overall engagement” is more important than how much time is spent on the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Stout, the vice president of global public policy at Snapchat parent Snap Inc., said time on the app is “one of many metrics” the company studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Leslie Miller, YouTube’s vice president of government affairs and public policy, like the other officials, would not directly answer the question of whether the video-streaming service defines success by how long people spend watching videos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do look at, for example, if a video was watched through its entirety,” Miller said. “We look at those data points.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Snapchat says it will continue to fight abuse of its app, including cracking down on drug dealing.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Stout told lawmakers that Snapchat is “an antidote to social media,” highlighting how “very little” of its content is sorted by algorithms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Snapchat’s architecture was intentionally designed to empower people to express a full range of experiences and emotions with their real friends, not just the pretty and perfect moments,” Stout said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lawmakers zeroed in on the ways in which Snapchat has led to harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One feature that drew particular attention from lawmakers was Snapchat’s now-disabled “speed filter,” which critics say encouraged teens to drive at excessive speeds. The feature has been connected to a number of deadly or near-fatal car crashes. 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Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., noted other cases where young people obtained drugs through Snapchat, including one young man who died after purchasing the painkiller Percocet laced with fentanyl on the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/snapchat-boosts-efforts-root-out-drug-dealers-n1280946\">Snap has stepped up detection measures to root out drug dealing\u003c/a> on the platform and launched an education campaign to steer users away from those peddling drugs on the app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are absolutely determined to remove drug dealers from Snapchat,” Stout said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from all three companies were asked about instances where the platforms were found to have fed young users material about sex, self-harm or content that worsens body-image issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the officials evaded responding to particular examples and instead stated generally that such content would violate its rules and be removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We prohibit content that promotes or glorifies such things as eating disorders, but we also realize that users come and share their stories about these experiences,” said Miller.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At YouTube, Miller said, experts help develop content moderation policies. More than 90% of content that violates its community guidelines is detected through its artificial intelligence, according to Miller.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. TikTok’s ties to China were in the spotlight.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>TikTok, which has more than 1 billion monthly active users around the globe, was grilled about an issue that first landed it in hot water during the Trump administration: its ties to China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TikTok is a U.S. business that is a subsidiary of ByteDance, a Beijing-based tech giant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at TikTok have long said that Americans’ data is primarily stored in the U.S. and safeguarded from the Chinese authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers, led by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questioned those safeguards, and pushed Beckerman on whether U.S. user data is shared with ByteDance, accusing TikTok of being cozy with Chinese authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cruz asked Beckerman whether TikTok’s privacy policy permits ByteDance unfettered access to Americans’ personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beckerman did not directly answer the question, pointing out that TikTok does not exist in China. The app’s Chinese counterpart is known as Douyin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That does not give this committee any confidence that TikTok is doing anything other than participating in Chinese propaganda and espionage on American children,” said Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not accurate,” Beckerman shot back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7216620-Cloutier-DECLARATION.htm\">China-based ByteDance engineers do have access to U.S. user data\u003c/a>, but can only gain such access with permission from an American security team, a top TikTok security official said last year in a sworn statement as part of the company’s legal battle with the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not share information with the Chinese government,” Beckerman told senators on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. The companies refused to commit on legislative proposals.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even though there is bipartisan support in Washington to regulate the tech industry, Democrats and Republicans differ in diagnosing the problem, and sometimes have opposing solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, senators discussed a range of legislative proposals, like an update to a\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/989862270/the-26-words-that-made-the-internet-what-it-is\"> law known as Section 230\u003c/a> that provides a legal shield to the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, bills that would protect the online privacy rights of children, ban ads targeting young users and eliminate core features of social media, including “like” buttons, autoplay and push alerts, were also put to company officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the time, however, lawmakers could not pin down the positions of the tech company representatives on various proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the officials refused to offer clear answers on whether they supported a law that would regulate how tech companies can collect personal data from teenagers, Markey became frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just what drives us crazy, ‘We want to talk, want to talk, want to talk.’ This bill’s been out there for years, and you still don’t have a view on it,” Markey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blumenthal, too, grew impatient with the answers from the company representatives on specific pieces of legislation that would impose greater restrictions on the tech industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Markey said it wasn’t enough to simply support the goals of the legislation, as the officials said that they did. “That’s meaningless if you don’t support the legislation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: Google, which owns YouTube, is among NPR’s recent financial supporters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2021 NPR. 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Those are two of the main takeaways from thousands of internal Facebook documents that NPR and other news outlets have reviewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The documents, known collectively as the Facebook Papers, were shared in redacted form with Congress after whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, disclosed them to the Securities and Exchange Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haugen alleges that the trove of statements and data prove that Facebook’s leaders have repeatedly and knowingly put the company’s image and profitability ahead of the public good — even at the risk of violence and other harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the internal documents initially emerged last month in \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039\">\u003cem>The Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>They include internal research findings and internal audits that the company performed on its own practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are four main takeaways from news outlets’ review of the documents:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>1. Facebook employees hotly debated its policies, especially after Jan. 6.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>When then-President Donald Trump’s supporters mounted an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Facebook rushed to take technical measures that aimed to clamp down on misinformation and content that might incite further violence. The next day, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/insurrection-at-the-capitol/2021/01/07/954453630/facebook-bans-president-trump-from-posting-for-the-rest-of-his-presidency\">it banned Trump from the platform\u003c/a> — at first temporarily, but then permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks leading up to the violence, Facebook worked to defuse vitriol and conspiracy theories from Trump voters who refused to accept his defeat. As NPR’s Shannon Bond and Bobby Allyn have reported, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/22/1048543513/facebook-groups-jan-6-insurrection\">the company repeatedly shut down groups affiliated with the Stop the Steal movement\u003c/a>. But those groups were attracting hundreds of thousands of users, and Facebook was unable to keep pace as the conspiracy theorists regrouped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The post-election turmoil put a quick end to the relief that many at Facebook felt on Nov. 3, when the U.S. election played out mostly peacefully and without inklings of foreign meddling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then came Jan. 6 — and as the assault on the Capitol riveted and horrified audiences in the U.S. and elsewhere, Facebook employees aired their frustration and anger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been fueling this fire for a long time and we shouldn’t be surprised it’s now out of control,” one employee wrote on an internal message board, the documents show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hang in there everyone,” Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, wrote on a message board, calling for calm as he explained the company’s approach to the riot, according to the documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to Schroepfer’s message, Facebook employees said it was too little too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I came here hoping to effect change and improve society, but all I’ve seen is atrophy and abdication of responsibility,” one commenter said, according to the documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to NPR, Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone said Facebook did not bear responsibility for the Capitol siege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The responsibility for the violence that occurred on January 6 lies with those who attacked our Capitol and those who encouraged them,” Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>2. Content standards were contorted, often out of fear of riling high-profile accounts.\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of the earliest revelations from the internal documents is the detail they provide about \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-files-xcheck-zuckerberg-elite-rules-11631541353\">Facebook’s separate set of content standards for high-profile accounts\u003c/a>, such as those for Trump, or for celebrities.[aside postID=news_11891063,news_11890948 label='Related Posts']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Trump’s presidency, he regularly made false and inflammatory statements about a wide range of matters. But only a small handful were removed by Facebook, as when the then-president made dangerous claims like saying COVID-19 was less dangerous than the flu or stating that children were \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/08/05/899558311/facebook-removes-trump-post-over-false-claim-about-children-and-covid-19\">“almost immune from this disease.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook has previously defended its approach to such controversial and misleading statements, saying politicians like Trump should be allowed to say what they believe so the public knows what they think. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also repeatedly insisted that Facebook is merely a platform, not the “arbiter of truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the documents suggest Facebook’s policy of treating influential people differently — codified in a VIP system called \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-2c39adedde98be43e1c4084bba36b479\">XCheck\u003c/a> — was created in large part to prevent a public relations backlash from celebrities and other high-profile users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/23/1040081678/what-leaked-internal-documents-reveal-about-the-damage-facebook-has-caused\">entire premise of the XCheck system\u003c/a>, the Journal’s Jeff Horwitz told NPR in September, “is to never publicly tangle with anyone who is influential enough to do you harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/21/1047928585/oversight-board-slams-facebook-for-giving-special-treatment-to-vip-users\">Facebook’s own oversight board sharply criticized the program\u003c/a> last week, saying the company has not been forthcoming enough about its varying standards for content moderation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook spokesperson told NPR in a statement that the company asked the board to review the program because it aims “to be clearer in our explanations to them going forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. Young people see Facebook content as “boring, misleading, and negative.”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For much of the past decade, older people have been the fastest-growing U.S. demographic on Facebook — a dramatic turnabout for a company whose founding mystique rests on the image of a hoodie-wearing coder creating a space for college kids to connect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the same time span, Facebook has seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/03/08/is-facebook-becoming-social-medias-retirement-home-infographic/?sh=1a33e3d51ba9\">younger people become less likely to join the site\u003c/a>. It’s a worrying trend for the company — Facebook insiders got an update on that trend this year, in an internal presentation that is reflected in the documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/22743744/facebook-teen-usage-decline-frances-haugen-leaks\">“Most young adults perceive Facebook as a place for people in their 40s and 50s,”\u003c/a> the company’s researchers said, according to The Verge. “Young adults perceive content as boring, misleading, and negative. They often have to get past irrelevant content to get to what matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with that stumbling block, young users were found to have negative views of Facebook due to privacy concerns and its potential “impact to their wellbeing,” The Verge reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haugen previously leaked a Facebook study that found that \u003ca href=\"https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/teen-mental-health-deep-dive.pdf\">13.5% of British teen girls in a survey said their suicidal thoughts became more frequent after they joined Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to its namesake platform, Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is clear that Facebook prioritizes profit over the well-being of children and all users,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said during a Senate hearing this month in which Haugen testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. 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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also repeatedly insisted that Facebook is merely a platform, not the “arbiter of truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the documents suggest Facebook’s policy of treating influential people differently — codified in a VIP system called \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-2c39adedde98be43e1c4084bba36b479\">XCheck\u003c/a> — was created in large part to prevent a public relations backlash from celebrities and other high-profile users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/09/23/1040081678/what-leaked-internal-documents-reveal-about-the-damage-facebook-has-caused\">entire premise of the XCheck system\u003c/a>, the Journal’s Jeff Horwitz told NPR in September, “is to never publicly tangle with anyone who is influential enough to do you harm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/10/21/1047928585/oversight-board-slams-facebook-for-giving-special-treatment-to-vip-users\">Facebook’s own oversight board sharply criticized the program\u003c/a> last week, saying the company has not been forthcoming enough about its varying standards for content moderation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook spokesperson told NPR in a statement that the company asked the board to review the program because it aims “to be clearer in our explanations to them going forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>3. Young people see Facebook content as “boring, misleading, and negative.”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>For much of the past decade, older people have been the fastest-growing U.S. demographic on Facebook — a dramatic turnabout for a company whose founding mystique rests on the image of a hoodie-wearing coder creating a space for college kids to connect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the same time span, Facebook has seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/03/08/is-facebook-becoming-social-medias-retirement-home-infographic/?sh=1a33e3d51ba9\">younger people become less likely to join the site\u003c/a>. It’s a worrying trend for the company — Facebook insiders got an update on that trend this year, in an internal presentation that is reflected in the documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theverge.com/22743744/facebook-teen-usage-decline-frances-haugen-leaks\">“Most young adults perceive Facebook as a place for people in their 40s and 50s,”\u003c/a> the company’s researchers said, according to The Verge. “Young adults perceive content as boring, misleading, and negative. They often have to get past irrelevant content to get to what matters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with that stumbling block, young users were found to have negative views of Facebook due to privacy concerns and its potential “impact to their wellbeing,” The Verge reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haugen previously leaked a Facebook study that found that \u003ca href=\"https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/teen-mental-health-deep-dive.pdf\">13.5% of British teen girls in a survey said their suicidal thoughts became more frequent after they joined Instagram\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to its namesake platform, Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is clear that Facebook prioritizes profit over the well-being of children and all users,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said during a Senate hearing this month in which Haugen testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>4. 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She says everyone is rushing to meet their delivery targets every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vazquez says it’s chaotic and dangerous at the facility. “There are empty pallets with plastic on them,” she says. “There are gloves and plastic on the floor.” Several workers told KQED about accidents they recently witnessed involving loose plastic, pallets and tripping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11873927,news_11862641\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A HelloFresh spokesperson responded in a statement, “Our employees are critical to everything we do, and we prioritize their health, safety and well-being above all else.” They added, “HelloFresh was among the first companies in the industry to introduce robust COVID-19 response measures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, HelloFresh had a major COVID-19 outbreak in Richmond last summer. The Contra Costa County public health team intervened and worked extensively with the company to update their protocols. There were 171 confirmed cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vazquez says she caught covid at the facility and then passed it to her son. Her mother lives with them, and because they were worried she would get sick, they had to send her to live with a relative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"https://www.grocerydive.com/news/meal-kit-sales-are-cooking-amid-the-pandemic/577367/\">the pandemic has been a boon for companies that deliver groceries and food\u003c/a>. It helped turn around business for HelloFresh. 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But as a consequence of that unrestricted use, the underground water table has sunk by hundreds of feet in some areas, and the state is now trying to stabilize those aquifers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators need to calculate just how much water each farmer is using across California’s vast agricultural lands, and scientists and private companies are now offering a technique that uses images from orbiting satellites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The days of agricultural anonymity are over,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.landiq.com/joel-kimmelshue\">Joel Kimmelshue\u003c/a>, co-founder of the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.landiq.com/\">Land IQ\u003c/a>, which is helping to hone the technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water surveillance got a big boost when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11891246/california-farmers-are-storing-water-in-underground-aquifers-that-function-like-savings-accounts\">California passed a law in 2014 that aims to protect the state’s aquifers\u003c/a>. It places limits on the amount of water that farmers are allowed to pump.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nThere was a big problem: Local officials like Eric Limas weren’t sure how to enforce limits on water use. Limas is general manager of the Lower Tule River and Pixley irrigation districts, in Tulare County, where aquifers are among the most depleted in the entire state. He’s also in charge of a newly established groundwater sustainability agency for that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was one of the first conversations that our groundwater committee tackled,” Limas says. “‘OK, how are we going to do that? Are we going to measure every molecule that’s pumped?'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11891401\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/aquifer1-1020x679.jpg\"]Limas doesn’t even know exactly how many wells there are in his part of the county. Thousands of them are hidden away in the middle of cornfields and almond orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many farmers weren’t inclined to help him out, especially in the first years after the law was passed. Limas recalls the initial reaction: “At first it’s like, ‘You’re crazy if you think you’re going to come on my place and … figure out how much I’m pumping. That’s my water.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Limas heard that researchers at California Polytechnic State University had developed \u003ca href=\"http://www.itrc.org/projects/metric.htm\">a way to estimate the amount of water used by agricultural crops from images recorded by NASA-operated satellites\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land IQ, meanwhile, was using that same technique — supplemented with stations on the ground — to collect data on field-by-field water use. It sounded like “Star Wars stuff,” Limas recalls. But it also sounded easier and cheaper than getting water meters installed on every well in his district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The technique involves several steps. The first is figuring out which crops are growing on each field. The satellite images, which are updated almost every week, contain clues: the shade of green, the spacing of vegetation, the time of year the field turns green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Combining these clues, Kimmelshue says, produces a fingerprint of each crop. “We have a fingerprint for walnuts and a fingerprint for alfalfa, tomatoes and all these different crops,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11892959\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1342px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11892959 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/alfa-maps-satellite.jpg\" alt=\"Two maps side-by-side created by LandIQ. Both use a multi-color, grid system to describe different factors present in a small patch of land in the Central Valley: what crops are grown and how much water is being consumed.\" width=\"1342\" height=\"870\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/alfa-maps-satellite.jpg 1342w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/alfa-maps-satellite-800x519.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/alfa-maps-satellite-1020x661.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/10/alfa-maps-satellite-160x104.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1342px) 100vw, 1342px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Land IQ uses data from a NASA satellite to determine which crops are growing on each field. The map on the left shows one small part of California’s Central Valley. The darkest green areas are almond groves. The map on the right shows “evapotranspiration” (water used by crops or evaporated from soil) in the region during June 2020. Some fields (shown in dark blue) consumed 8 inches of water. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of LandIQ)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 4% of the time, Kimmelshue says, there’s a case of mistaken identity. “We might confuse almonds for peaches,” he says. “But a peach tree and an almond tree have similar water needs” so the estimate of water use still ends up being quite accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each crop, at a particular point in its life cycle, takes up a predictable amount of water and releases it through its leaves, depending on local weather conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Land IQ has set up local monitoring stations to keep track of things like wind speed, heat and humidity, at hundreds of locations. Putting it all together, the company calculates the amount of “evapotranspiration” — the amount of water that the plants are releasing to the air, as well as what’s evaporating from the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"science_1976952\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2021/09/Grapes-1920x1440.jpg\"]That’s different from the amount that farmers are pumping because some irrigation water that’s pumped from the aquifer sinks back into the earth. Because of this, Kimmelshue has convinced officials like Limas that it’s more important to regulate water consumption, in the form of evapotranspiration, rather than water pumping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s now selling that data to more than a dozen groundwater regulatory agencies, including the ones that Eric Limas manages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Limas and his colleagues can monitor how much water is consumed by every farmer, field by field, and show farmers how that compares with their legal allotment under the new Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of guys are going in and looking at their water budgets and saying, ‘Oh, yeah, we don’t have enough water to plant that summer crop,'” Limas says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s how the process is supposed to work. Farming practices are supposed to change to conserve aquifer water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='More Climate Coverage' tag='climate']Some officials worry that it won’t go so smoothly when limits on groundwater use get tighter over the next two decades, while others are predicting court battles over whether the satellite-based technique is accurate. Some farmers say that regulators ultimately may shift to using data from water meters that are installed on every well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, though, the technique is growing more popular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later this week, a coalition of scientists, NASA and environmental groups like the Environmental Defense Fund plans to launch a new version of space-based water monitoring. This one is called OpenET (“ET” refers to evapotranspiration). 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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. 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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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