Looking good in the picture

A whistleblower’s revelations about Facebook confirm long-held suspicions that the company puts dollars before the safety of its products. But that does not take away from Frances Haugen’s merit. Now we have proof that some of Mark Zuckerberg’s decisions have been seriously harming the good of the community. Others serve only to look good in the picture.

Thanks to what the group’s former employee did, we can say with a good degree of certainty that Facebook has not done enough to mitigate some of the problems it already knew about, such as hate speech on the social network and Instagram’s impact on its users’ mental health.