Frances Haugen made global headlines when she blew the whistle on Facebook. She says the company treats Australia differently to other markets.
Rampant celebrity cryptocurrency scam ads are as Australian as Tim Tams, koalas or the Great Barrier Reef, according to American Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who says the tech giant’s lack of focus on Australia has let scams run wild on its platform compared with other markets.
“In the United States, we don’t have a problem with celebrity scam ads the way you do,” she said. “I was shocked when I came here and saw the extent of it. “I think people really don’t understand how brittle Facebook’s systems are. And I think Australia is probably paying the highest cost for that. Because you are the most different from British English or American English, you are a high per-capita income country, you’re a great target.”A spokesman for Facebook’s parent company, Meta, denied Haugen’s claims in a statement to this masthead.
The billionaire failed in his bid to bring criminal charges against Facebook in Australia in April this year when the Director of Public Prosecutions decided not to pursue them. Forrest’s ongoing civil action in the US – which he commenced in 2021 – challenges Facebook owner Meta on its use of legal immunity for online publishers to shield its entire business from any liability.
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