A facebook whistle blower named francis howgan testified on castle hill. Mark zuckerburg lost something like six billion dollars in personal wealth yesterday. The company's leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram savor but won't make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people.
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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