‘Facebook products harm children, stoke division’: Top quotes from Frances Haugen’s testimony

Here are some feedback from the committee listening to:
FRANCES HAUGEN, FACEBOOK WHISTLEBLOWER
* “I’m here today because I believe Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy.”

*”There is nobody at the moment holding Mark (Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief govt) to account. The buck stops with Mark.”
*”Yesterday we noticed Facebook taken off the web. I don’t know why it went down, however I do know that for greater than 5 hours, Facebook wasn’t used to deepen divides, destabilize democracies and make younger women and girls really feel unhealthy about their our bodies.”
US SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR, DEMOCRAT FROM MINNESOTA
“When they allowed 99% of violent content to remain unchecked on their platform including the lead-up to the Jan. 6 insurrection, what did they do? Now we know Mark Zuckerberg was going sailing.”
Former Facebook worker and whistleblower Frances Haugen arrives to testify throughout a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation listening to entitled ‘Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower’ on Capitol Hill, in Washington, US, October 5, 2021. Reuters)
US SENATOR ROGER WICKER, REPUBLICAN FROM MISSISSIPPI
“Children of America are hooked on their product. There is cynical knowledge on behalf of these Big Tech companies that this is true.”
US SENATOR MARSHA BLACKBURN, REPUBLICAN FROM TENNESSEE
“The research was Facebook’s internal research. So they knew what they were doing, they knew where the violations were and they know they are guilty.”
US SENATOR RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, DEMOCRAT FROM CONNECTICUT
“The damage to self-interest and self-worth inflicted by Facebook today will haunt a generation.”
“Big Tech now faces the Big Tobacco jaw-dropping moment of truth.”