Facebook被控将利润置于用户安全之上

Hello, I'm Neil Nunes with the BBC news.

大家好，尼尔·纽纳斯为您播报BBC新闻。

The Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has defended his company from accusations that it puts profits before user safety after a former employee turned whistleblower and gave damning testimony to a US Senate committee.

Facebook老板马克·扎克伯格就其公司将利润置于用户安全之上的指控进行了辩护，此前该公司一名前雇员揭发了这件事，并向美国参议院的一个委员会提供了确凿的证词。

In a blog post, Mr Zuckerberg said the argument that Facebook deliberately pushed content that made people angry was illogical.

扎克伯格在一篇博客中表示，指控Facebook故意发布让人们愤怒的内容的说法是不合逻辑的。

The whistle blower, Frances Haugen, said Facebook executives knew their content could harm children and weaken democracy.

揭发者弗朗西丝·豪根表示，Facebook的高管们知道他们的内容可能会伤害儿童并削弱民主。

Monika Bickert, vice president of content policy at Facebook, rejected the claims, but said external regulation was also needed.

Facebook内容政策副总裁莫妮卡·比克特否认了这些说法，并表示外部监管也是必要的。

We don't think that we should be making all these decisions on our own.

我们不认为所有这些决定都要由我们自己来做。

It's a reason that we have put this information out there in our community standards enforcement report.

这也是我们在社区标准执行报告中公布这些信息的原因。

It's why we have an independent oversight board.

这就是为什么我们有一个独立的监督委员会。

It's also why we called for regulation for more than 2.5 years and continue to engage with the UK regulators and support their focus on making sure that companies have robust systems in place to keep their communities safe.

这也是为什么我们两年半时间以来呼吁监管，并继续与英国监管机构进行合作，支持他们确保境内公司拥有健全的系统，从而保证他们的社区安全。

The governor of California has once again called for an end to offshore drilling, following last week's massive oil spill off the southern coast of the state.

加州州长再次呼吁停止近海石油开采，就在上周，该州南部海岸发生了大规模石油泄漏。

David Willis is in Los Angeles.

请听大卫·威里斯在洛杉矶的报道。

The oil spill took place about 60 kilometers south of Los Angeles off the coast of Huntington Beach, an area nicknamed Surf City USA.

这起石油泄漏发生在洛杉矶以南约60公里处的亨廷顿海滩，该地区被称为“美国冲浪城”。

It's thought to have resulted from the rupture of a steel pipeline possibly caused by the anchor of a passing ship.

据称，泄漏是由钢管断裂造成的，可能是一艘过往船只的锚砸断了钢管。

The result was an oil spill that has grown to around 6 kilometers long and 2 kilometers wide and has closed local beaches to boats and tourists.

目前石油泄漏已扩大到约6公里长，2公里宽，当地海滩已对船只和游客关闭。

The area is also home to dozens of species of wildlife and sea birds have been found covered in oil.

该地区也是数十种野生动物的家园，目前已发现有海鸟身上沾满石油。

Questions are being asked about why it took the company that owns the pipeline 12 hours to report this leakage following complaints from local residents of a foul smell in the area last Friday.

人们提出了质疑，为什么拥有这条管道的公司在12个小时之后才报告泄漏问题？在此之前，周五就有当地居民投诉该地区有臭味了。

The British government has announced an independent inquiry into the police following the murder of a young woman Sarah Everard by a London officer in March.

英国政府宣布对警方进行独立调查，此前一名年轻女子萨拉·埃弗拉德在今年三月份被一名伦敦警察谋杀。

Before the killing, Wayne Couzens was able to keep his job despite suspicious behavior.

在韦恩·库曾斯行凶之前，尽管他的行为可疑，但他仍能够在警局工作。

He was given a whole life term for kidnap, rape and murder.

他因绑架、强奸和谋杀被判终身监禁。

The main opposition Labour Party spokesman on home affairs Nick Thomas-Symonds said the inquiry was not wide enough.

主要反对党工党内政事务发言人尼克·托马斯-西蒙兹表示，调查还不够广泛。

The inquiry is not on a statutory footing, which means that it's going to be unable to compel witnesses to appear before it.

这次调查不是法定调查，也就是说不能强迫证人出庭。

It's going to be unable to demand the evidence that it needs.

它也将无法要求得到需要的证据。

I'm also worried that on what I've heard so far, it doesn't seem to be looking into the wider culture on whether women within policing feel they have that confidence to come forward with concerns.

我还担心的是，就我目前所听到的情况来看，这次调查似乎并未涉及更宽泛的警局文化，也就是警局中的女性是否有信心提出自己的担忧。

This is the latest world news from the BBC.

这里是最新的BBC世界新闻。