It is quite ominous that the global Facebook outage, which denied over a billion users of their favourite social media platform for several hours, coincided with a hearing attended by insider whistleblower Frances Haugen before the US Senate Commerce, Science and Transport Subcommittee. What transpired at the hearing remains largely unreported.That Frances was armed with thousands of secret internal documents, which she has apparently shared with US Securities and Exchange Commission, members of the Congress and some newspapers, is highly disconcerting for Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who saw his fortunes shaved by not less than $6 billion as the company share price dropped nearly five percent in the space of a few hours that had seen the platform go down.This was in addition to tens of millions of dollars in advertisement revenue that the platform lost during the outage.Frances Haugen’s complaint that Facebook ‘prefers profit before people’ has by now become famous as a one-liner indictment against the social media giant, which has over the years grown into a supranational power, wielding usurped authority over 1.6 billion people, a real threat to civilized human progress and democracy.
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