The hearing comes the day after Facebook and its photo-sharing platform Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp experienced rare global outages, and two days after Haugen revealed her identity in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes.” The company’s shares rebounded Tuesday, after falling 4.9% Monday.
There are several proposals for legislation that would address the kinds of harms revealed in the Facebook documents shared by Haugen. Lawmakers are considering bills to increase transparency in social media algorithms, change liability protections for online platforms, strengthen privacy protections and even break up the biggest tech companies.
While there is bipartisan outrage about Facebook’s alleged abuses, there has been little movement on legislation to tighten tech regulations.
--With assistance from Kurt Wagner.
This article was provided by Bloomberg News.