Liberal advocacy groups launch ‘How to Stop Facebook’ campaign

Over 40 leading human rights and tech advocacy groups launched a major campaign Wednesday to stop Facebook from unfairly harvesting user data and using surveillance-driven algorithms, the first coordinated grassroots push to do so in the wake of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s revelations regarding the tech giant.

Haugen, a former Facebook employee, recently gave a trove of internal company documents to the Wall Street Journal regarding the social media company’s negative effects on teenage girls’ mental health, its use by drug cartels and human traffickers, its special rules for VIPs, and its amplification of harmful content through algorithms.