Social media companies are playing with user safety to attract attention and make money!
Social media companies are playing with user safety to attract attention and make money! It has been sensationally revealed that the world's most famous social media companies deliberately promoted harmful content to attract user attention and make money. Speaking to the BBC, more than a dozen whistleblowers and former employees of the companies claimed that Meta ( Facebook/Instagram ) and TikTok prioritized business over security . According to a Meta engineer, in order to compete with TikTok's rapid growth and improve the company's falling share price, management had instructed to place 'borderline' harmful content in the feed. This content includes misogyny , conspiracy theories and hate speech . Which, while not technically illegal, are considered extremely harmful to users. Matt Mottil, a senior researcher at Meta, said that Instagram's 'Reels' feature was launched in 2020 without adequate security measures. According to an internal investigati...