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Real social media solutions, with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen | Your Undivided Attention

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Are You Taking a Risk to Come Out?

Francis: I was working on how was Facebook influencing the information environment, some of the most vulnerable places in the world. Most people are not aware that Facebook went into countries around Africa, around South America, around Southeast Asia and said, use our products. Francis: And I genuinely, genuinely fear that there are tens of millions of lives in the line in places like African countries in Southeast Asia. We've seen two genocides so far, Myanmar and Ethiopia. Those are opening chapters of a dystopian novel that I desperately don't want to read the end of.

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