{"id":1242361,"date":"2023-02-04T09:34:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T04:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/?p=1242361"},"modified":"2023-02-04T09:35:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T04:05:36","slug":"facebook-ex-employee-confesses-facebook-can-secretly-kill-your-smartphones-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/facebook-ex-employee-confesses-facebook-can-secretly-kill-your-smartphones-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Ex-Employee Confesses: Facebook Can Secretly Kill Your Smartphone&#8217;s Battery!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite its enormous popularity, Facebook has always been the subject of debates. The social media platform has previously been accused of many things, from privacy risk to targeted advertising. The app drains cell phone batteries, according to a new claim made by one of the company&#8217;s former employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Untitled-design-9-1280x720-1-1024x576-1-1024x576-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Facebook Ex-Employee Confesses: Facebook Can Secretly Kill Your Smartphone's Battery!\" class=\"wp-image-1242406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Untitled-design-9-1280x720-1-1024x576-1-1024x576-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Untitled-design-9-1280x720-1-1024x576-1-1024x576-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/trak.in\/stories\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Untitled-design-9-1280x720-1-1024x576-1-1024x576-1-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Company\u2019s negative testing practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A practice known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/life\/technology-facebook-can-secretly-kill-users-battery-life-claims-former-employee-2964473\/lite\/?utm_campaign=fullarticle&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=inshorts\">&#8220;negative testing,&#8221;<\/a> which enables tech companies to covertly drain a significant portion of cell phone batteries in the name of running features or issues like how an image would upload or how quickly the app runs, was disclosed by George Hayward, a data scientist who worked for Facebook&#8217;s Messenger app, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hayward claims that when he came to know about the negative testing feature, he discussed it with his manager who replied, \u201cby harming a few we can help the greater masses.\u201d Hayward claims in his lawsuit that he was fired for saying no to negative testing practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI refused to do this test,\u201d Hayward told the news company, adding, \u201cIt turns out if you tell your boss, \u2018No, that\u2019s illegal,\u2019 it doesn\u2019t go over very well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hayward, who was hired in 2019, stated that although he is unsure of the precise number of Facebook users affected, he is confident that the company engages in negative testing. This is because he was given an internal training document titled, \u201cHow to run thoughtful negative tests,\u201d which included examples of such trials runs conducted by the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have never seen a more horrible document in my career,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More issues linked with the app:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook has long been charged with stealing battery power from mobile devices. Since 2015, news reports have claimed that even when the Facebook iOS app is closed, it uses a significant amount of the phone&#8217;s battery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to find out how the Facebook app affected the performance of an LG G4 Android phone, Redditor pbrandes_eth was inspired by the Android blogger Russell Holly in 2016. 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