Facebook exec says company will make itself 'more transparent'
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Facebook Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg appeared on ABC's "This Week" Sunday.
Following the explosive whistleblower hearing on Tuesday, Facebook will implement new tools to increase transparency and safety for users, Facebook Vice President of Global Affairs Nick Clegg said Sunday.
"We will, of course, seek to make ourselves ever more transparent so people can hold us to account," Clegg told ABC “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos.
On Tuesday, Facebook whistleblower and former employee Frances Haugen testified before a Senate subcommittee, accusing the social media giant of ignoring evidence that its content is harmful to young users and dangerous to democracy.
“I saw Facebook repeatedly encounter conflicts between its own profits and our safety. Facebook consistently resolved these conflicts in favor of its own profits,” Haugen told senators. “The result has been more division, more harm, more lies, more threats and more combat.”