Social Media Giants Prioritize Engagement Over User Safety, Whistleblowers Reveal
Explosive new allegations claim TikTok, Meta, and other social media platforms deliberately amplified harmful content to drive user engagement and growth, compromising safety in the process.
In a shocking exposé, whistleblowers have revealed that leading social media giants like TikTok and Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) intentionally prioritized user engagement over safety, knowingly allowing more harmful content to proliferate on their platforms.
According to the whistleblowers, who spoke to the BBC, these companies' algorithms were specifically designed to detect and promote content that generated strong emotional reactions, such as outrage and anger, as this was found to keep users scrolling and interacting for longer periods of time.
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Source: BBC News
