In the days following these revelations, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Meta re-brand alongside a plan to build and lead its version of the metaverse, which is an interconnected set of experiences in a new online world.įacebook has made it easier than ever to profit off teen girls' insecurity Since then, more documents, dubbed the " Facebook Papers," have leaked, showing an apparent continued disregard for the health of Facebook's users on the part of the company.
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Haugen testified in front of the Senate just days before Facebook's online services shut down for nearly six hours when, the company claimed, an update to its routers went awry ( via NPR ). "How could we possibly suggest we’re a caring business if we look at that and don’t care?" "We’re talking about suicide here, not spots or whether someone should dye their hair blonde," he told the UK paper. That was a step too far for Lush, as Constantine bluntly explained to The Guardian.
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In September, the Wall Street Journal published a series of reports called "The Facebook Files." In those reports, we learned - thanks to leaked internal Facebook documents from whistleblower Frances Haugen - that Facebook knew Instagram was harmful to the health of young people, and didn't share that information with the public.
This comes as Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, faces accusations of putting the financial success of its platforms before the health and safety of its users.
"I'm not willing to expose my customers to this harm, so it's time to take it out of the mix." There is now overwhelming evidence we are being put at risk when using social media," Constantine said in a statement. "I've spent all my life avoiding putting harmful ingredients in my products. Lush’s chief executive, Mark Constantine, said the decision to get rid of its accounts came because of the deep problems the company's seen with safety on social media. The cosmetics company shut down its Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok accounts on Friday. But after Facebook's own research showed that Instagram is bad for the health of young people, Lush decided to quit social media all together. She said there were many days when work conditions were unsafe for employees who were left to work in dangerously hot temperatures without air conditioning.Companies do a lot to get attention on social media - from cringe-y brand Twitter accounts posting about Taylor Swift to incessant Instagram stories. Flores alleges that on several occasions, she would go in to work a shift that was meant for five to seven people to find only two or three working, "TODAY" reported.
I had multiple different bosses."įlores and several other employees put in their two weeks' notice to management at the end of June, she said.
"We had just got really tired of upper management and them not coming to help and not caring about the employees," Flores told "TODAY." "As I became general manager, it got more crazy. "Sorry for the inconvenience." Rachael Flores / via Facebookįlores said she experienced months of issues, including short staffing, managerial turnover and "hectic" work conditions. "We all quit," reads the sign at a Burger King in Lincoln, Neb. Sorry for the inconvenience," read the message posted on the sign outside the restaurant after Flores and at least six other employees decided to put in their two weeks' notice.
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