Facebook says it will introduce new measures on its apps to prompt teenagers away from harmful content.
Facebook’s Vice President of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg, said on Sunday that there was the need to letting regulators have access to Facebook algorithms that are used to amplify content.
Clegg who spoke days after former Facebook employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen testified on Capitol Hill about how the company entices users to keep scrolling, harming teens’ well-being, told the CNN that algorithms “should be held to account, if necessary, by regulation so that people can match what our systems say they’re supposed to do from what actually happens.”
“We’re introducing something called, ‘take a break,’ where we will be prompting teens to just simply just take a break from using Instagram,” Clegg said.
