Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen during Tuesday’s Senate hearing cited ethnic violence in Myanmar and Ethiopia as examples of the “destructive impact” that the social media platform has had on society. The former Facebook employee suggested before lawmakers that there is a link between Facebook activity and the violence in the regions. The social media platform’s algorithms facilitate hate, Haugen said, and therefore put profit before user safety. “My fear is that without action, divisive and extremist behaviors we see today are only the beginning. What we saw in Myanmar and now in Ethiopia are the opening chapters of a story so terrifying no one wants to read the end of it,” Haugen, a former product manager for Facebook, said before the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security. Facebook officials didn’t immediately respond to a request by The Epoch Times for comment. In 2018, Facebook officials said that the …