That Facebook consumes too much battery in the background has been known for years. But would you have ever guessed that he did it in way "intentional“? At least, that's what the former Meta employee suggests George Hayward, a data scientist who he said to the New York Post the reason for this problem. According to him, the company does it on purpose. Let's go see why.
The accusation of a former Facebook employee: the app consumes too much battery and does it intentionally. A strong accusation: will it have repercussions?
According to the words of the former Facebook employee, the app consumes excess battery for perform so-called “negative tests”, so that apps do another level of evaluations of other app features, like how fast a program can load or how well it can load an image. Hayward says one of the reasons for his resignation was the refusal to keep these tests, fearing that it might actually harm some users.
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Hayward was fired from Meta in November and initially filed a lawsuit against the company in federal court in Manhattan. The 33-year-old worked for the Facebook Messenger app. In the lawsuit, his lawyer pointed out that draining the batteries of users' smartphones puts people at riskespecially in emergency situations. Commenting on the practice of negative tests, the lawyer classified the process as illegitimate.
Originally hired in 2019, Hayward received a six-figure annual salary from Big Tech. But he remembered how he preferred give up the assignment after realizing the problems of the negative tests, who are institutionalized there. “I have never seen a more horrific document in my career“, he says, referring to data that would demonstrate that Facebook intentionally consumes battery. In short, this is a very big accusation which, if confirmed, would put the colossus Meta in a very bad light. However, this would not be too surprising: the data speak for themselves e the effects have been seen for years now.
