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I Blew The Whistle on Meta, Now I Won't Work Again'
I Blew The Whistle on Meta, Now I Won't Work Again'... Meta Whistleblower Arturo Bejar Reveals Own Underage Daughter Received Unwanted Advances
A former senior staff member, Arturo Béjar, at Meta said Instagram is not doing enough to protect teens from sexual harassment.
BBC 8 NOV 2023
Arturo Béjar, who is testifying in front of the US Congress, said he thinks whistleblowing means he will never work in the industry again.
He worked for Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, between 2009 and 2015, and again from 2019 to 2021.
Meta said it had brought in "over 30 tools" to support a safe environment for teens online.
Mr Béjar said that part of his job was working to help better protect people online. He thought that things were going in the right direction before he left the company in 2015. However, he first realised that there was a problem with it - when he saw his daughter's experience of Instagram.
Speaking to the BBC in an exclusive UK interview, he said "shortly after she went on Instagram, she started getting unwanted sexual advances - misogyny, harassment at 14."
He said: "When we would talk about this... it turns out that all of her friends were experiencing the same. I was shocked. She said there was nothing [she] could do, because [she] had no option to report it."
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