People who seem to be most vulnerable and most affected by these negative effects are also the ones who have the least self control in terms of their usage of the product. In soudi arabia, we found hundreds of women being sold on harag, another popular commodity ap and on facebook oind instagram,. We found hundreds more. And one of my colleagues actually ended up speaking to a woman who was trafficked just within the last year. So i think there should be some sort of verification on every job advat on his book, maybe the human trafficin thing.
Facebook kicked off the week with an outage and followed that up today with a whistleblower testifying before Congress. The Wall Street Journal’s Jeff Horwitz explains how the company may have misled the public about the dangers of its social networks.
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