-A former Facebook employee has claimed that Facebook apps (Messenger and Facebook) secretly drain the battery of the user's smartphone. According to a report in New York, this process is called negative testing. Through this method, big tech companies exhaust the battery of someone's smartphone to test the features of an app.
-George Hayward is a former Facebook employee who previously worked as a data scientist at the company. He said that he was fired from Meta-owned Facebook because of this. Because he refused to join the negative testing.
-George said, 'I told my manager that it could harm someone. But, he said that we can help more people by harming some.
-George was fired from Facebook in November. He originally filed a lawsuit against the tech company in Manhattan Federal Court. Thirty-three-year-old George was directly involved in the development of Facebook's Messenger app.
-In the lawsuit, Hayward's attorney Dan Kaiser said that draining the battery of a user's smartphone could put them at risk. Especially in those situations when they need to talk to someone immediately. However, Meta's terms of employment forced Hayward to drop his suit and put his case into arbitration. Phone Arena has given this information in one of its reports.
-According to Kaiser, most people don't know that social media giants like Facebook can intentionally drain your battery. Hayward informed me that the company had given him a training document earlier also. The title of this document was 'How to test negative'. In such a situation, it can be assumed that Meta regularly conducts such tests.
