US Congress pretty much says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg lied
Paid contractors using audio clips of Facebook users is under the microscope in the US, with Zuckerberg’s testimony called ‘at best, incomplete’
15 August 2019 - 18:27
Washington/San Francisco — Democratic Senator Gary Peters of Michigan cast doubt about Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony amid revelations that Facebook has been paying contractors to transcribe audio clips from its users.
Peters’s comments, which followed a Bloomberg report that the company used the transcriptions to improve its speech-recognition technology, come as smartphones and other microphone-enabled devices become ever-more ubiquitous...
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