{"id":149203,"date":"2022-01-09T19:48:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T19:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=149203"},"modified":"2022-01-09T19:48:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T19:48:37","slug":"facebooks-former-elections-boss-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/politics\/facebooks-former-elections-boss-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#39;s former elections boss speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>New York  (CNN)<\/cite>Katie Harbath worked for 10 years inside Facebook, where she was most recently the company&#8217;s public policy director managing elections. Now, she&#8217;s the founder and CEO of Anchor Change, and on &#8220;Reliable Sources&#8221; Sunday, she spoke out about her old company and its role in democracy. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wired&amp;#39;s top editor: Metaverse &amp;#39;feels like a terminological land grab&amp;#39;\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/211216091527-wired-editor-gideon-lichfield-large-169.jpg\"><br \/>\nHarbath said Facebook shouldn&#8217;t get the sole blame for Jan. 6 \u2014 there&#8217;s a massive problem across the media ecosystem in how people get their information. <\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;I do think there needs to be more soul searching around how (Facebook) could have done better as a company,&#8221; Harbath said. &#8220;How could we have potentially prevented this, going as far back as December 2015 with President Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Harbath was working at Facebook during the insurrection last year. Stelter said critics pointed out she had a long time to leave amid  the revelations about company&#8217;s harmful policies.<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m not here to say that I shouldn&#8217;t be held responsible for the decisions and the actions I made inside the company,&#8221; Harbath said. &#8220;But what I&#8217;m trying to do now is trying to actually rethink and try to go back and learn from those mistakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harbath had hoped she could bring about changes within the company after 2016, and acknowledged the platform&#8217;s increased transparency and civic integrity team. But in the past five years, she said the company got much larger, exacerbating some of the challenges.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"On the anniversary of January 6, social media platforms are on high alert\" class=\"media__image\" src=\"\/\/cdn.cnn.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/191017142407-social-media-apps---stock-large-169.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In terms of some of the decisions that the company was making, as it got larger, there were more leaks,&#8221; Harbath said.<br \/>\nHarbath wants to see more long term planning at Facebook in 2024. There will be major election around the globe, including in the United States, India, Indonesia, Ukraine and Taiwan.<br \/>\n&#8220;That&#8217;s a lot of elections to prepare for, and to build up the language capabilities, to build up the products, to build up the teams. That takes time,&#8221; Harbath said. <\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said there&#8217;s a sense that the rhetoric on Facebook and other social-media platforms &#8220;supercharges the worst impulses of lies and disinformation&#8221; around the world.<br \/>\n&#8220;We need to start thinking about more nuanced views of this,&#8221; Harbath said, &#8220;and also [get] a better understanding of what&#8217;s happening inside these companies.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/09\/media\/facebook-reliable-sources-katie-harbath\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN)Katie Harbath worked for 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23055],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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