Tech firms must be fined 'billions' to curb AI and social media risks, says whistleblower

Summary

A whistleblower who published hundreds of internal documents from within Facebook has warned that ministers have to be willing to "fight" in order to regulate social media and AI companies. Speaking to Sky's Cathy Newman, former Facebook data engineer Frances Haugen said tech companies, particularly Meta, are "immensely profitable" and any fines handed out to them would have to amount to "billions of dollars" in order to have an impact. Frances Haugen's story is being told in the film The Social Reckoning. Read more…

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