Again, Haugen has likely done the world a great benefit in leaking a bunch of internal documents (I’ll have more on those soon). But it’s important to remember that just because she blew the whistle regarding Facebook research, it doesn’t make her an expert on everything else. She’s not an expert on content moderation, or antitrust, or encryption. She may be a useful source for exploring what Facebook’s research showed, or some of Facebook’s decision making, but it’s depressing how quickly eager politicians looking to gain support for their already existing plans are exploiting her to argue for their position on topics she’s really not qualified to comment on. Indeed, it’s also dismissing the hard work of tons of actual experts on these topics, from practitioners in the field to the academics who study these issues.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211025/23164647821/whistleblower-encryption-everyone-has-angle-not-everyone-is-policy-expert.shtml
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