I remember Roy saying this to Trevor during one of the shows. He went like, "Did you know the angry emoji is more valued than a thumbs up?" Didn't understand him till now.

You can tell she has a lot more dirt on FB but she's keeping it professional and staying focused on the primary issue. Respect.

Saw part of this last night. Thanks for putting it up here for me to watch the whole thing. Facebook-sober for 7 years, going strong.

Instagram blocked my account when I shared Amnesty International's post about Frances Haugen claiming I had violated their rules. A company that blocks any criticism of themselves and violates freedom of speech should not exist.

Gleefully deleted FB a while back when it was clear that it had gone from being a place you could connect with old classmates to being in the thick of an online war zone.

This was one if Trevor's best interviews, he asked very reasonable questions and she gave smart and genuine answers.

As someone who builds Machine Learning algorithm for a living in a large corporation, I concur with what she says. People have this idea that FB employs thousands of humans that sit there and decide what to show in your feed and how to bias it. There aren't enough people in the world you can hire to do that manually. A machine learning algorithm is at the core of such technologies. The core objective is to increase engagement: likes, shares, reactions, comments, etc. So a ML algorithm can help you do just that to increase engagement. Also AB testing is a critical part to prove if engagement increased with a statistical significance given a new algorithm. Over time FB got excellent at collecting high quality data, building reliable data pipelines, and improving their ML algorithms. I love building and optimizing ML models but FB is a case where the upper management willingly ignored the known terrible side effects.

She's so intelligent and interesting. Thanks for taking the chance to impart us with this information.

Such a brilliant and open person. I'm so glad she actually stepped away from FB and went "no, you know what. I'm gonna be on the side of the people. We need to fix it." This is a true hero move. She is Sarah Connor.

I really, really enjoyed this conversation! She is so smart and intelligent. Also, as a software engineer, I am very interested in Facebook algorithms on the technical level! They must have really brilliant people there.

Just stay away from Facebook,I meet my friends once a week to eat ,chat and drink. Keep that as a healthy habit,it's called having a social circle,no algorithm telling you what to do,period.

I loved this conversation. Haugen is very smart & knowledgeable. It’s very scary to know what Facebook is harming this society. Thanks Trevor for this interview.

This was such an important interview, thank you Frances for speaking about the issue so clearly, and thank you Trevor for having her on!

There are not many things on this earth more beautiful than watching someone speak of something of which they have intimate knowledge.

Keep Facebook, but dump the algorithm. And everybody step away from it and engage with it just a little less. Many thanks to this brave lady for bringing Mark's evil to light.

Her speaking out is so important, we don’t aprreciate the magnitude of what she‘s saying. I hope for us that will change. It‘s f*** messed up. Facebook/„Meta“/Mark Zuckerberg has to be held accountable.

I am from myanmar.So thank so much social media for known about all the world what an happening in myanmar.

Trevor is a black belt master interviewer. His questions are so intelligent and perceptive and his responses demonstrate his nuanced interpretation of the information. Great guests as well.

Yes. I love how she is enforcing transparency, I feel like it always comes down to that!

Bless people like Frances.

Remember the Star Trek episode "Day of the Dove?" An alien entity feeds on anger and violence, so it manipulates the Enterprise crew and the Klingons into a perpetual war. (Obviously, the episode was an allegory for the military industrial complex at the time, but it could just as easily be about social media today.)

Thank you, excellent information! Thank you Trevor for listening and trying to understand.

Facebook went as far as deleting the button that used to let me see only posts from my friends. Now, it's spoon feeding me posts from pages and groups that I am not even a member of! It's disgusting. I just wanna see what my friends have been up to; but no, I keep getting all these posts from all these pages that I don't care about.

Absolutely fascinating 👏 ! Thank you 😊

One of the most important conversations. We can have it outside Washington, and they won't even know.

Thank you for diving deep on these important issues.

What an incredible interview! Thank you!!

The lighting is so pleasing on this set, nice job.

Great interview, once again!

I have a Facebook account but I’m hardly ever on it - at this point I only use it to share updates with close friends and family - grandparents and aunts and uncles (that sort of thing) Outside of that, for me at least, the rest of it is just a hot mess.

Great interview. Great guest

From Iowa - come back; we need more like you, Frances!

Stopped using Facebook back in early 2017 and I'm glad I did.

I like these longer interviews.

This is great!! Love so much how a video talking about having different opinions and being able to have dialog keeps deleting my comments every 18 seconds. Love it so much! ❤️

I want to know what exactly FB was desperate to hide that for the first time they completely took the site down (for what was it, almost 2 days?) immediately after she told us all what was going on there.

This was a very illuminating interview. Trevor is really doing gods work putting these conversations out there. Thanks Francis for being so bold for the sake of humanity! You’re a real life hero!

I'm so glad she exposed FB. Too many people have been hurt by misinformation on FB.

She proves the emphasis on dislikes/disagreeing that I noticed from observation! Thank you Frances… They need to protect people.

I am an avid #MentalHealthAwareness advocate and spoken word performer, and I love this so much. I travel the country trying to bring that awareness on stages, in classrooms, hospitals, and on my KZfaq channel, so I get excited when I see other advocates. 💙❤

I was put in Facebook jail for two months for writing "Donald Trump is rich white trash." I haven't returned.

Thanks Frances & Trevor. I hope that far more people in the near future will understand the mechanics of Facebook‘s and all other social media algorithms. Also great takeaway that wording-wise developers switched from AI to ML. Makes far more senses in it‘s essential meaning.

This was a great interview. Commenting for the algorithm

You have the best information out there.

Thanks Frances and Trevor!

Always interesting!!

Thank You Frances~!!

Thank you for this

Thank you for all the information on this easily complicated and confusing issue (at least to.ones who isnt technology saavy like me) ❤❤

An amazing interview. Thank you for Truth!!

Thank you. I will start clicking differently after seeing this. I will start liking the thoughtful posts now.

What a lovely intelligent woman with such courage and ethical integrity. Thank you

Very intelligent woman and communication skills off the charts.

thank you!

Parents should watch this video, be informed and impart this as a conversation piece esp. if they have children who are teenagers, particularly at their early teens. FB does not really care about teen mental health.

We need people like her a lot.

Thank you so much . Left Facebook 9 years ago . I have no social media. Saw this coming a decade ago. So sad whats it doing to peoples mental health especially kids.

I really love that Trevor has people from all walks, I think thisis his distinguishing value. He has cordial discussion with Rep, Dems and all types. Its great to see people talk about things openly.

People give a person power 😉 just stop watching, playing, etc we can do it together ✊✊✊✊

@11:19 that right there sums it all up!

That was great!

Protect your brain. Cancel Social Media before Social Media cancels you. This is a serious issue. As an adult, I realize that. Teenagers don't.

Throughout my time with Facebook I definitely noticed all these things they talked about. Even back in 2008-09 when is military started using it. The rules of what to post seemed to change with check ins. Now everyone always knows where you are, but that's dangerous for some adventures.

Incredible.

Thanks for this interview . I will look for more information about Facebook. Sincerely, Debbie and

As a parent I am unclear how to navigate social media with my kids.

Now for this episode... I can say I love you keep doing the truth

Love the implied complete pass for Google/Apple by Trevor/etc lol

humanity's downfall is social media and reality tv

You should include a link to her page in the description.

this is great

great guest that Trevor brought in.

It's like pouring oil into the fire - for profit. Unregulated but highly profitable. Time to hold the company board accountable. Actually that is long overdue.

A very bright young woman

She is 100% right!!!

I love how she is talking with her Hands.

13 year olds should not be on social media to begin with. I did not join fb until I was 17. The age restrictions should be bumped up to 16 to join any social platforms.

This is awesome information! The echo chamber theory!!!

i want a book!

Y'all report all these spam ad phony replies. Just click the report thing and choose "spam ad." Done. It's a pain, but it at least helps.

Wow so important

What you focus on expands...

Big Tech companies use the same advertising and marketing firms as the NRA, tobacco and alcohol companies, the Trump campaign... You get the picture. What also needs to change are shareholder laws. They allow the shareholder class to control nearly every aspect of the economy and society.

WOW 😳

Let your kids play locally. (AKA go outside & meet real people to have real conversations this will allow them to develop coping mechanisms. Which in turn will allow them to converse...not just spew words). I quit FB years ago & I've never been happier.

You can watch the entire hearing she had with congress on PBS

To the uploader: the audio levels are so low, that I hear the background hiss of the recording. So I have to turn the volume up, just to be scared to death by the music at the end...

Why do we label people that stand for ethics as whistleblowers?

i love you.. the best human ever

Honestly one of the biggest social media topics of the decade. she's so professional and easy to understand.

KZfaq does it, too. They refuse to recognize the Denver Nuggets, instead they assume I’m a Warriors fan. . . Every day

How about a Character Report?

His last point, "money", immediately took me to the ethics side of money. I wish businesses would take responsibility to make adjustments when their way of generating revenue knowingly harms others. It just isn't that way, though, and I don't know that it ever will be.

About time more of these discussions are opening up to discuss the elephant in the room lol

If you divided them and make them fight each other, they won't fight you? Love back to the live interviews!

Dang Trevor you interview everybody lol

Great show. But the volumen is too low. Please do something about it

@The Daily Show : Would it be possible to add french subtitles on this video ? I would really like to share it in France & Belgium. If I translate it for you, would you put it on ?

The pen is mightier than the sword! Social media represents a whole lot of folks publishing w/o editors. Kind of what the world looks like when everyone is armed.

She talks so much with her hands she created her own sign language 🤣