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| Facebook whistleblower accuses tech titan of ignoring foreign espionage operations |
| 2021-10-07 |
| [Washington Examiner] Chinese spies are using Facebook to find Uyghur Muslims around the world, according to a whistleblower who argues the tech titan’s neglect of such behavior is a national security risk to the United States. "My team directly worked on tracking Chinese participation on the platform surveilling, say, Uyghur populations in places around the world," Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told a Senate Commerce subcommittee this week. "You could actually find the Chinese based on them doing these kinds of things." Those remarks sent a jolt through lawmakers, who came prepared for a discussion about "protecting kids online," as the hearing title promised. Sen. Dan Sullivan, an Alaska Republican who also sits on the Armed Services Committee, presented Haugen with an open-ended question about authoritarian exploitation of Facebook. She underscored that multiple foreign intelligence services have used the company to their advantage. "We also saw active participation of, say, the Iran government doing espionage on other state actors," Haugen said. "So, this is definitely a thing that is happening, and I believe Facebook’s consistent understaffing of the counterespionage, information operations, and counterterrorism teams is a national security issue." |
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