Father of slain journalist accuses Facebook of deceiving consumers
The father of Alison Parker, a journalist who was shot to death on live television in 2015, urged the Federal Trade Commission and US lawmakers to take action against Facebook and Instagram for failing to remove videos of his daughter's death.
Andy Parker said Tuesday that despite having rules against glorifying violence, Facebook and its photo-and-video sharing site Instagram put the burden on users to police and report this content. In a complaint expected to be filed with the FTC this afternoon, Parker alleges Facebook and Instagram are violating the FTC Act by lying to consumers about the safety of their sites.
"Facebook and Instagram's misrepresentations deceive consumers about the safety of the platform and the difficulty of users securing the removal of violative content," the complaint states. Consumers wouldn't use the sites, he said, if they knew the services "retraumatize" families of murder victims by requiring them to watch and then report violent videos.
The complaint is another example of how Facebook is facing more scrutiny over potential harms. The Wall Street Journal published a series of stories about how Facebook's internal research showed it knew about potential harms but downplayed them publicly. The Journal used documents leaked by former Facebook product manager and whistleblower Frances Haugen, who testified before Congress last week.
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Glorifying violence, making the family suffer, feeding raw meat to anti-American right-wing sadists. 
