Arturo Béjar, a former contractor at the social media giant, believes that Meta needs to change how it polices its platforms.
before Congress about the harms of Facebook and Instagram to children in the fall of 2021, Arturo Béjar, then a contractor at the social media giant, sent an alarming email to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the same topic., Béjar, who worked as an engineering director at Facebook from 2009 to 2015, outlined a"critical gap" between how the company approached harm and how the people who use its products — most notably young people — experience it.
“I can safely say that Meta’s executives knew the harm that teenagers were experiencing, that there were things that they could do that are very doable and that they chose not to do them,” Béjar told The Associated Press. This, he said, makes it clear that"we can't trust them with our children." Béjar points to user perception surveys that show, for instance, that 13% of Instagram users — ages 13-15 — reported having received unwanted sexual advances on the platform within the previous seven days.
The testimony comes amid a bipartisan push in Congress to adopt regulations aimed at protecting children online.
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