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That echoed some of the calls made last week by whistleblower and former Facebook employee Frances Haugen, who has accused the company of harming children, inciting political violence and fueling misinformation.

Parker said he agreed with Haugen on the need for Congress to impose new curbs on the long-standing legal protections for speech posted on social media platforms. Republican and Democratic lawmakers have called for stripping away some of the protections granted by a year-old law — in a provision known as Section — that shields internet companies from liability for what users post.

In her Senate testimony last week, Haugen urged lawmakers to remove the protections in cases where dominant content driven by computer algorithms favors massive engagement by users over public safety. Parker previously worked with the Georgetown law clinic to file a similar FTC complaint last year against Google and its YouTube service. In the press conference, Parker also asked lawmakers to get rid of protections tech companies receive under Section , which shields them from liability for content posted by users.

Facebook has also suggested changes to Section Nick Clegg, vice president for global affairs and communications at the company, told CNN that lawmakers could make the liability protections under Section given to "online companies like Facebook, contingent on them applying Father of slain journalist accuses Facebook of deceiving consumers Facebook and its Instagram site have failed to police violent content, a new complaint alleges.

Queenie Wong. Facebook and Instagram are facing more scrutiny. Delivered on weekdays. In her Senate testimony last week, Haugen urged lawmakers to remove the protections in cases where dominant content driven by computer algorithms favors massive engagement by users over public safety. Parker previously worked with the Georgetown law clinic to file a similar FTC complaint last year against Google and its YouTube service.

The FTC declined to comment on the latest filing and doesn't typically disclose whether or not it has decided to investigate a complaint. The FTC is legally able to ignore complaints filed by non-government parties, Goldman noted.

In this case, Parker used the platform of announcing the complaint to appeal to Congress to curb the liability protections for social media under Section Attorneys and advocates working with Parker, who said he's never watched the videos of his daughter's killing, detailed on Tuesday the extent to which they've tried to take those videos down, including appeals to Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg. Advocates for the Coalition for a Safer Web said they created their own software with the ability to find the videos, but some of the videos reported to Facebook earlier this month were still up just before the group filed its FTC complaint.

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