UNESCO: Information as a Public Good

The UN specialised agency had published a policy brief last year asking for greater transparency, in light of Facebook's whistleblower revelations that is necessary more than ever.

After the revelations by the Facebook whistleblower, and the articles in the Wall Street Journal, no one believes that the platform can self-regulate.

Ms. Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee that decided to go on record with her observations of mismanagement regarding internal scrutiny to prevent harmful online content to go viral, such as coordinated hate speech campaigns that resulted in the genocide of Islamic minority groups, and in the riots on the 6th of January at the US Capitol, that threatened the lives of US Congress and Senate representatives, was just one of many employees that have voiced their discontent with how the leadership at Facebook is conducting business.

Ms. Sheera Frankel, the New York Times cybersecurity reporter, published a book together with New York Times technology reporter, Ms. Cecilia Kang, on the shenanigans going on inside Facebook. They interviewed 400 Facebook employees for their book, “An Ugly Truth”, where they reported on the behind closed …