At the same time Facebook experienced a blackout that ultimately cost Mark Zukerberg billions of dollars, Frances Haugen, the exposed whistleblower within the company, testified in front of the Senate Commerce Committee. Not only did Haugen torch the company for their tactics but she also advised the lawmakers to create a regulatory agency that would ultimately protect the people from the harms of Big Tech. And according to Haugen, she believes people like her should run it. 

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Although Haugen attempted to secure a future job, it wasn’t the most shocking thing she said while she testified. She would also blame Facebook for the events that led up to the Capitol Hill riot on January 6th.

“Right now, the only people in the world who are trained to analyze these experiments, to understand what is happening inside of Facebook, are people who ‘grew up’ inside of Facebook, or Pinterest, or another social media company. And there needs to be a regulatory home where someone like me could do a tour of duty after working at a place like [Facebook], and have a place to work on things like regulation”

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While taking questions from Senator John Thune, Haugen also advised that committee that users should not be allowed to disable the “harmful” algorithms set up by Facebook. “I don’t think it’s just a question of saying, should people have the option of choosing to not be manipulated by their algorithms. I think if we had appropriate oversight, or if we reformed 230 to make Facebook responsible for the consequences of their intentional ranking decisions, I think they would get rid of engagement-based ranking.”

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As Haugen continued to push for more social media regulations, Nick Clegg, who is the vice president of the company, wrote a memo to Facebook employees, saying, “Social media has had a big impact on society in recent years, and Facebook is often a place where much of this debate plays out. But what evidence there is simply does not support the idea that Facebook, or social media more generally, is the primary cause of polarization.”