Facebook whistleblower to speak on Yale Law School online panel Thursday - New Haven Register

The law school’s event is in two parts, both online. The first, the journalists and the activists, will run from 6 to 7:25 p.m. The second, the academics, will be held from 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Haugen, 37, has leaked tens of thousands of internal documents showing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and others knew the platform assisted people in spreading misinformation about the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and misled investors, according to her interview on “60 Minutes.” She left the company in May.

“Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they’ll click on less ads, they’ll make less money,” Haugen said. She testified before the Senate subcommittee on consumer protection, led by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.

Facebook spokeswoman Lena Pietsch issued a statement saying, “Every day our teams have to balance protecting the ability of billions of people to express themselves openly with the need to keep our platform a safe and positive place. … To suggest we encourage bad content and do nothing is just not true.”

In addition to Haugen, the first panel is to include Tristan Harris, president and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology; Jeff Horwitz, award-winning technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal and the primary author of “The Facebook Files”; and Meetali Jain, deputy director of Reset Tech, which raises funds for civil society organizations engaged in democracy and technology issues.

The academics section will include Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. He is founder and director of Yale’s Information Society Project, an interdisciplinary center that studies law and new information technologies. He is the author of numerous books, most recently “The Cycles of Constitutional Time” (Oxford, 2020) and many articles about technology and law.

Also to attend are David Kaye, clinical professor of law at the University of California at Irvine and former U.N. special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression; Nathaniel Persily, law professor at Stanford Law School and codirector of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, Stanford Program on Democracy and the Internet, and the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project; Zephyr Teachout, associate professor at Fordham Law School and the author of “Break ’Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money”; and Shoshana Zuboff, professor emerita at Harvard Business School and the author of three books about technology and society.

To register for the panels, go to law.yale.edu/isp/events.

source: https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Facebook-whistleblower-to-speak-on-Yale-Law-16510589.php

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