Meta is dissolving a team with a specialist to study the potential negative effects of the company’s products, including Facebook and Instagram.
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Meta is going through a phase of change, with its revenue declining during the first half of this year
newspaper revealedThe Wall Street JournalThe American company, Meta, dissolved an internal team dedicated to studying the potential negative effects of the company’s products, including Facebook and Instagram.
About 20 engineers, ethicists and others made up the Responsible Innovation Team, as it was called, which has so far assessed potential concerns regarding new products and changes at Facebook and Instagram.
A Meta spokesperson told the newspaper that “most of the former team members will continue to do similar monitoring work elsewhere in the company, although their job retention is not guaranteed.”
As part of META’s strategy change, most members of the responsible innovation team will practice their previous work directly with other teams.
Eric Porterfield, a Meta spokesman, said that assessing the potential negative impacts of the company’s products “has become a greater rather than less priority” now.
He added that the team is “working to expand its reach by deploying specialized teams of experts in priority production areas, and we have more people working within the framework of responsible innovation within production teams than we did two years ago, so most of the members of this team continue to work elsewhere in the company.” dead”.
This comes as Meta is going through a phase of change, with its revenue declining during the first half of this year, and it was forced to cancel its “Live Shopping” service, and is facing a $400 million fine from the European Union for failing to protect its child users.
