Facebook whistleblower will 勧める U.S. 上院 to 規制する company
By David Shepardson and Diane Bartz
WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Former Facebook 従業員 and whistleblower フランs Haugen will 勧める the U.S. 議会 on Tuesday to 規制する the social マスコミ 巨大（な）, which she 計画（する）s to に例える to タバコ companies that for １０年間s 否定するd that smoking 損失d health, によれば 用意が出来ている 証言 seen by Reuters.
"When we realized タバコ companies were hiding the 害（を与える）s it 原因（となる）d, the 政府 took 活動／戦闘. When we 人物／姿／数字d out cars were safer with seatbelts, the 政府 took 活動／戦闘," said Haugen's written 証言 to be 配達するd to a 上院 商業 小委員会. "I implore you to do the same here."
Haugen will tell the パネル盤 that Facebook (n)役員／(a)執行力のあるs 定期的に chose 利益（をあげる）s over 使用者 safety.
"The company's leadership knows ways to make Facebook and Instagram safer and won't make the necessary changes because they have put their 巨大な 利益（をあげる）s before people. 連邦議会の 活動／戦闘 is needed," she will say. "As long as Facebook is operating in the dark, it is accountable to no one. And it will continue to make choices that go against the ありふれた good."
上院議員 Amy Klobuchar, who is on the 小委員会, said that she would ask Haugen about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 by 支持者s of then-大統領 Donald Trump.
"I am also 特に 利益／興味d in 審理，公聴会 from her about whether she thinks Facebook did enough to 警告する 法律 施行 and the public about January 6th and whether Facebook 除去するd 選挙 misinformation 保護（する）／緊急輸入制限s because it was costing the company financially," Klobuchar said in an emailed comment.
The 上院議員 also said that she 手配中の，お尋ね者 to discuss Facebook's algorithms, and whether they "促進する harmful and 意見の不一致を生じる content."
Haugen, who worked as a 製品 経営者／支配人 on Facebook's 市民の misinformation team, was the whistleblower who 供給するd 文書s used in a 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物 調査 and a 上院 審理，公聴会 on Instagram's 害（を与える） to teen girls.
Facebook owns Instagram 同様に as WhatsApp.
The company did not 答える／応じる to a request for comment.
Haugen 追加するd that "Facebook's の近くにd design means it has no oversight - even from its own Oversight Board, which is as blind as the public."
That makes it impossible for regulators to serve as a check, she 追加するd.
"This 無（不）能 to see into the actual systems of Facebook and 確認する that Facebook´s systems work like they say is like the Department of Transportation 規制するing cars by watching them 運動 負かす／撃墜する the 主要道路," her 証言 says. "Imagine if no regulator could ride in a car, pump up its wheels, 衝突，墜落 実験（する） a car, or even know that seat belts could 存在する."
The 定期刊行物's stories, based on Facebook 内部の 贈呈s and emails, showed the company 与える／捧げるd to 増加するd polarization online when it made changes to its content algorithm; failed to take steps to 減ずる ワクチン hesitancy; and was aware that Instagram 害（を与える）d the mental health of teenage girls.
Haugen said Facebook had done too little to 妨げる its 壇・綱領・公約 from 存在 used by people planning 暴力／激しさ.
"The result has been a system that amplifies 分割, extremism, and polarization - and 土台を崩すing societies around the world. In some 事例／患者s, this dangerous online talk has led to actual 暴力／激しさ that 害（を与える）s and even kills people," she said.
Facebook was used by people planning 集まり 殺人，大当りs in Myanmar and in the Jan. 6 強襲，強姦 by Trump 支持者s who were 決定するd to 投げ上げる／ボディチェックする out the 2020 選挙 results. (報告（する）／憶測ing by David Shepardson; 付加 報告（する）／憶測ing by Diane Bartz, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien, David Gregorio and Sonya Hepinstall)
