TARGETED INDIVIDAULS - TI's and whistle blowers In the News: THE WORLD AT A GLANCE, THE WEEK MAGAZINE, OCTOBER 15, 2021, Volumne 21, Issue 1049: FACEBOOK:
ANGER IS THE ALGORITHM SAID WHISTLE BLOWER, FRANCIS HAUGEN
By Synthia Esther
Updated: 7-13-2024.
Francis Haugen, at a young mere 37 year old age, sought to make a difference in the world in which we live (I believe she did). She is a long-haired blond raven who weighed in on the trillion-dollar company Facebook, revealing many on-going serious, criminal infractions. As a whistle blower, Haugen warned of social media crimes while confirming she did not have "a solution" to these problems. An algorithm specialist with a Harvard MBA, former Facebook employee Haugen "leaked reams...of internal documents" which served as proof of corporation injustice.
From: www.commerence.senate.gov (retrieved 7-13-2024) one reads:
Sub-Committee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security Statement of Frances Haugen October 4, 2021:
Chairman Blumenthal, Ranking Member Blackburn, and Members of the Subcommittee. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you and for your interest in confronting one of the most urgent threats to the American people, to our children and our country’s well-being, as well as to people and nations across the globe. My name is Frances Haugen. I used to work at Facebook and joined because I think Facebook has the potential to bring out the best in us. But I am here today because I believe that Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division, weaken our democracy and much more.
The company’s leadership knows ways to make Facebook and Instagram safer and won’t make the necessary changes because they have put their immense profits before people. Congressional action is needed. They cannot solve this crisis without your help. I believe that social media has the potential to enrich our lives and our society. We can have social media we enjoy — one that brings out the best in humanity. The Internet has enabled people around the world to receive and share information and ideas in ways never conceived of before. And while the Internet has the power to connect an increasingly globalized society, without careful and responsible development, the Internet can harm as much as it helps.
I have worked as a product manager at large tech companies since 2006, including Google, Pinterest, Yelp and Facebook. My job has largely focused on algorithmic products like Google+ Search and recommendation systems like the one that powers the Facebook News Feed. Working at four major tech companies that operate different types of social networks, I have been able to compare and contrast how each company approaches and deals with different challenges. The choices being made by Facebook’s leadership are a huge problem — for children, for public safety, for democracy — that is why I came forward. And let’s be clear: it doesn’t have to be this way.
We are here today because of deliberate choices Facebook has made. Statement of Frances Haugen October 4, 2021 I joined Facebook in 2019 because someone close to me was radicalized online. I felt compelled to take an active role in creating a better, less toxic Facebook. During my time at Facebook, first working as the lead product manager for Civic Misinformation and later on Counter-Espionage, I saw that Facebook repeatedly encountered conflicts between its own profits and our safety. Facebook consistently resolved those conflicts in favor of its own profits. The result has been a system that amplifies division, extremism, and polarization — and undermining societies around the world. In some cases, this dangerous online talk has led to actual violence that harms and even kills people. In other cases, their profit optimizing machine is generating self-harm and self-hate — especially for vulnerable groups, like teenage girls.
These problems have been confirmed repeatedly by Facebook’s own internal research. This is not simply a matter of some social media users being angry or unstable. Facebook became a $1 trillion company by paying for its profits with our safety, including the safety of our children. And that is unacceptable. I believe what I did was right and necessary for the common good — but I know Facebook has infinite resources, which it could use to destroy me. I came forward because I recognized a frightening truth: almost no one outside of Facebook knows what happens inside Facebook. The company’s leadership keeps vital information from the public, the U.S. government, its shareholders, and governments around the world. The documents I have provided prove that Facebook has repeatedly misled us about what its own research reveals about the safety of children, its role in spreading hateful and polarizing messages, and so much more.
I appreciate the seriousness with which Members of Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission are approaching these issues. The severity of this crisis demands that we break out of previous regulatory frames. Tweaks to outdated privacy protections or changes to Section 230 will not be sufficient. The core of the issue is that no one can understand Facebook’s destructive choices better than Facebook, because only Facebook gets to look under the hood. A critical starting point for effective regulation is transparency: full access to data for research not directed by Facebook. On this foundation, we can build sensible rules and standards to address consumer harms, illegal content, data protection, anticompetitive practices, algorithmic systems and more. 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 common good. Our common good.
2 Statement of Frances Haugen October 4, 2021 When we realized tobacco companies were hiding the harms it caused, the government took action. When we figured out cars were safer with seat belts, the government took action. And today, the government is taking action against companies that hid evidence on opioids. I implore you to do the same here.
Right now, Facebook chooses what information billions of people see, shaping their perception of reality. Even those who don’t use Facebook are impacted by the radicalization of people who do. A company with control over our deepest thoughts, feelings and behaviors needs real oversight. But Facebook’s closed design means it has no oversight — even from its own Oversight Board, which is as blind as the public. Only Facebook knows how it personalizes your feed for you. It hides behind walls that keep the eyes of researchers and regulators from understanding the true dynamics of the system. When the tobacco companies claimed that filtered cigarettes were safer for consumers, it was possible for scientists to independently invalidate that marketing message and confirm that in fact they posed a greater threat to human health.1
But today we can’t make this kind of independent assessment of Facebook. We have to just trust what Facebook says is true — and they have repeatedly proved that they do not deserve our blind faith. This inability to see into the actual systems of Facebook and confirm that Facebook’s systems work like they say is like the Department of Transportation regulating cars by watching them drive down the highway. Imagine if no regulator could ride in a car, pump up its wheels, crash test a car, or even know that seat belts could exist.
Facebook’s regulators can see some of the problems — but they are kept blind to what is causing them and thus can’t craft specific solutions. They cannot even access the company’s own data on product safety, much less conduct an independent audit. How is the public supposed to assess if Facebook is resolving conflicts of interest in a way that is aligned with the public good if it has no visibility and no context into how Facebook really operates? This must change. 1
James Hamblin. “If My Friend Smokes Sometimes, Should the Cigarettes Have Filters? An honest question.” The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/cigarette-filters/533379/ 3 Statement of Frances Haugen October 4, 2021 Facebook wants you to believe that the problems we’re talking about are unsolvable. They want you to believe in false choices. They want you to believe you must choose between connecting with those you love online and your personal privacy. That in order to share fun photos of your kids with old friends, you must also be inundated with misinformation. They want you to believe that this is just part of the deal. I am here to tell you today that’s not true. These problems are solvable. A safer, more enjoyable social media is possible.
But if there is one thing that I hope everyone takes away from these disclosures it is that Facebook chooses profit over safety every day — and without action, this will continue. Congress can change the rules Facebook plays by and stop the harm it is causing. I came forward, at great personal risk, because I believe we still have time to act. But we must act now.
Thank you.
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SOCIAL MEDIA DANGERS AND HARM
Mark Zuckerberg readily knew (as company research had confirmed) that his "company products cause social harm." Social harm is an understated cause of many ill gain big data-based Internet networking systems whereby cyber bullying oftentimes serves to rule. Teen age suicide especially among young girls has increased under the strain of such popular covetous idolatry programs, as vastly reported by many noted news media sources.
* In March 2023, many news making authorities in the United States sought to ban TikTok's all invasive surveillance, big data control programs. As protection from China's invasive power takeover systems that have been deemed to be a treat to American interests at large. Military protections now weigh large between America and China.
Mental abuse is common ground for many social media participants, whose comments, likes and dislikes provide networking posting power. All of which can quite literally destroy the mental health and welfare of many users, regardless of age. Facebook's Instagram photo sharing platform, is a case in point, as it has served as host for soap opera trauma drama in real life and real time.
Haugen, as whistle blower, served to confirm facts that in the past could not be proven. In 2018, Facebook adopted an algorithm tweak in order to increase participation and advertising revenue. Which in turn served to fuel abundant anger, yielding forth abundant "inflammatory information and conspiracy theories." Reality blurs under the strain of such disinformation processes as fake news yields forth a steady stream of deceptive negative programming.
* Elizabeth Warren (and many other deemed news authority sources) weighed In on TikTok's "surveillance of Americans" on NBC news "Meet The Press" - March 19, 2023).
ANGRY COMPETITION MOUNTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKING SYSTEMS:
There is a competition factor involved in most all social media networking systems. On a corporate level, Facebook has lost ground to other fan faring platforms such as Snapchat and TikTok. Just as MySpace had lost ground to Facebook. The circle of life construct on the Internet becomes a strain when corporations serve to compete in order to remain top data base dogs. Likewise personal entanglements strain under endless reality star competition wars.
As long as privacy laws remain lax, social media goals remain unlawfully harmful, as big-data harvesting serves big-dollar margin profit sectors. Even if algorithms were to become public knowledge, such transparency would not illuminate social media's problems.
CHINA-US MILITARY TIES "FACE TIME"(NEWS CHINA - VOLUMNE NO. 184-DECEMBEER 2023 -BY HU BO, CONFIRMED "A GREAT POWER COMPETITION" ENSUES:
"Given the Military asymmetry and lack of mutual trust between China and the US, China will only engage in military exchanges with the US on its own terms" ... Military Asymmetry - "Since the end of the Cold War, the three major barriers for bilateral military exchanges with the US were arms sales to Taiwan, the US's extensive and intensive reconnaissance activities in China's adjacent waters and airspace, and discriminatory laws against China. Now, as the bilateral relationship enters a period of 'great power competition,' a more prominent strategic or structural barrier is the asymmetrical nature of the of the military competition between Chinas and the US (pg,14)."
THE END OF THE COLD WAR IS A MISNOMER IN NAME,OBJECT, DEED, AND MEANING - AS DATA BASED SURVEILLANCE, COUPLES WITH AI EMPOWERED PROJECTIONS THAT ENABLE AND BACK TECHNOCRACY - TECHCHRONICITY CONTROL SYSTEMS WORLD WIDE:
"The Cold War, in reality, went underground, as millions of Targeted Individuals World Wide, have in truth proclaimed. Systematic covert control looms large via science and technology space-laced, Earth Grid matrix, AI-data based influences and strongholds. Social media data based, informative platforms and their dangers weigh large, in this quiet, secret war." - Synthia Esther (Reference Resource: Targeted Individuals page at: www.techchronicity.com).
"THE MOST INFLUENTIAL DOCTORS, SCIENTISTS & MORE, TIME - A 100 HEALTH", MAY 13, 2023 - REPORTED (THE BULLETIN - PG. 9) "FACING A BAN IN THE U.S., TIKTOK GEARS UP FOR A LEGAL BATTLE":
"TIKTOK'S 170 MILLION USERS IN THE U.S. face losing access to the ubiquitous social media app after President Biden signed into law a bill bon April 24 compelling the app's parent company ByteDance to either sell it by January 2025 or face a nationwide ban. FORCED SALE Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have increasingly voiced concerns that the video platform is being used as a tool for Chinese propaganda and the surveillance of American users. (ByteDance has denied any ties with the Chinese government.)
"The House of Representatives has been trying to force ByteDance to sell TikTok for months. In, April, it forged an unusual path forward attaching a TikTok bill to a foreign policy package that included aid for Ukraine and Israel. That measure passed the Senate, giving ByteDance nine months to sell its stake, with a possible three-month extension."
" TITANS - VIVEK MURTHY (U.S. Surgeon General)- DOCTOR OF HUMAN CONNECTIONS CONFIRMED (PG. 60): "The loneliness crisis intersects with another public-health treat Murphy has drawn attention to: he also issued an advisory about the effects of social media on youth mental health, pointing out that logging hours on TikTok and Instagram can lead to disordered eating and low self-esteem, especially among adolescent girls. He has pushed policymakers to take steps to strengthen safety standards and promote digital literacy, and tech companies to make changes and prioritize safety and health."
"Our relationships are the most tangible and powerful way we can manifest generosity and love."- Vivek Murthy.
EXODUS 20:3-6: IDOLATRY IS A SIN.
The Internet as a knowledge input output, information broker, also serves as a venue mirror of public reflection. There is trouble brewing on the World Wide Web because it serves as a platform for many hopeless, injured troubled people. It is a broken matrix of a power and control system that will not soon be fixed, nor resolved. It is important to realize, only God, can fix our world's vexing problems.
However, faith without works is dead - James 2:14-26. If we allow the Internet to provide that which we believe we lack in life we enter into a systematic ongoing contract with the devil himself. For only God can complete us - Hebrews 13:20-21. And only when His born again children allow and follow His plan for their life, will they succeed and prevail and not fail - Ephesians 2:10.
THE WORLD SYSTEM IS A BROKEN ANTICHRIST BASED IDOLATRY PROGRAM, FILLED WITH SEDUCTIVE INDUCTIONS TO SIN:
As Morpheus said to Neo, in Matrix, the movie regarding "The System":
“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you look around, what do you see? Business men, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so injured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”
As God said to humanity in the Bible: In this world you will have trouble. Praise be to God our Holy Father, as His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, has overcome the world! - John 16:25-33, We must therefore remind ourselves that we are not to be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of our mind - Romans 12:2.
From a personal perspective, I found social media networking platforms to be self-promoting instead of God devoting. At which time I took myself off most all social media programming (despite ongoing - on growing popularity) and concentrated on providing additional free Internet website ministry resources touting God's soul winning words instead of ongoing personal like linking networking program systems. For God says: Those who win souls are wise - Proverbs 11:30. To God be the glory - Ephesians 3:21.
LOVE OF SELF ABOVE THE LOVE OF GOD, HAS ALWAYS BEEN SATAN'S PLAN (GENESIS 3:5):
"Family break down oftentimes leaves youth in search of peace and love in all the wrong places. Which is why popular social media propaganda platforms serve self-centered interests well. Decadence swells where deception, chaos, and confusion dwells. Moral decline comes at a cost when rejection of God's truth serves as a foundation of sin.
"Foremost to remember, is that humanity male and female - (reference Synthia Esther Ministries free biblical website resource: wwww.sexhisway.com), is created in the image of God, being spirit beings (Genesis 1:27). God as Creator has placed His love mark on every human heart and soul (mind, will, emotions). Only the peace of our Holy Father, Jesus Christ, can complete you. A return to God ,and walking in the foundation of His Holy word, will, and ways, is where one will find the peace of God. For obedience is better than sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22).
"As Paul told the Romans, the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet (Romans 16:20). And the God of peace will be with you, Paul told to the Philippians, and to the Thessalonians, he proclaimed, God will Himself sanctify you completely (Romans 15:33; 1 Thessalonians 5:23). We too must learn to trust and lean towards dwelling within the fullness and security of God's peace and love (John 3:16-17, please reference the sacredpursuit.com website page: A Free Gift, to learn more).
"For the God of grace, mercy, and love, provides blessed hope that will fill you with all joy and peace. As you trust in Him, I pray you too may overflow with God's eternal blessings filled with hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11). By the power of the Holy Spirit of God, these blessings are so (Romans 15:13)."
Sincerely in His Service,
Synthia Esther.
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