Facebook Makes Media Blitz, Following Bombshell Whistleblower Leak.<br />On October 10, Facebook said it will implement new tools <br />to divert users away from harmful content, limit political content <br />and give parents more control on teen Instagram accounts.<br />The company’s vice president of global <br />affairs, Nick Clegg, appeared on several morning <br />news shows to address the changes. .<br />While speaking on ABC’s “This Week," Clegg said one measure <br />would urge users who are on Facebook’s platform Instagram <br />for long periods of time to “take a break.”.<br />He said another feature will encourage teens viewing content deemed harmful to their well-being to look at something else.<br />NBC reports that Clegg also said the company’s planned Instagram Kids represents part of the social media titan's solution to recent criticism.<br />We have no commercial incentive <br />to do anything other than try and make <br />sure that the experience is positive. <br />We can’t change human nature. <br />We always see bad things online. <br />We can do everything we can to try<br />to reduce and mitigate them, Nick Clegg, Facebook VP of Global Affairs, via NBC.<br />Clegg’s media appearances come <br />after the Senate testimony of whistleblower <br />Frances Haugen on October 5. .<br />NBC reports that Haugen told a Senate panel <br />that Facebook consistently puts <br />its own profits over users’ health and safety.<br />NBC reports that Haugen told a Senate panel <br />that Facebook consistently puts <br />its own profits over users’ health and safety.<br />On 'Meet the Press,' Clegg said Facebook is also looking into ways to reduce the presence of politics on Facebook for some users.<br />Our job is to mitigate and reduce the bad <br />and amplify the good, and I think those <br />investments, that technology and some <br />of that evidence of how little hate speech <br />there is compared to a few years ago, <br />shows that we are moving <br />in the right direction, Nick Clegg, Facebook VP of Global Affairs, via 'Meet the Press'
