In 2021, whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former employee, told the US Senate the platform’s algorithm was “fanning ethnic violence… picking up the extreme sentiments, the division” as those posts attracted high engagement, while Facebook could not adequately identify dangerous content, and lacked sufficient expertise in many local languages – including some spoken in Ethiopia.
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