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Oct 4, 2021 · Noticing that Facebook and Instagram were down this morning led me to The New York Times Article about the Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, a former product manager at Facebook, and her...
Determined to bring transparency and accountability to Big Tech, in 2021 Frances Haugen risked everything to blow the whistle on Facebook.
- Who Is Frances Haugen, The Facebook Whistleblower?
- What Are Her Biggest Revelations?
- How Is Facebook responding?
- What Is Haugen Trying to Achieve?
Haugen, 37, joined Facebook in June 2019 with hopes of improving how Facebook deals with misinformation after she lost a friend due to conspiracy theories online. By April 2021 she resigned, and leaked a massive trove of Facebook’s internal documents and research to the Wall StreetJournal. She previously worked at other Silicon Valley tech giants, ...
Haugen detailed many of the allegations that had already appeared in the Journal’s Facebook Files. But she expanded on some of the points in her 60 Minutesinterview. Here are some of the biggest revelations.
Facebook has begun to hit back at Haugen’s allegations, issuing a lengthy statement in response to the 60 Minutesinterview. “Every day our teams have to balance protecting the right of billions of people to express themselves openly with the need to keep our platform a safe and positive place,” said Lena Pietsch, Facebook’s director of policy commu...
Haugen clarified that she has nothing against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, adding that she knows he did not intend on creating a “hateful” platform. “I have a lot of empathy for Mark,” she told Pelley. “But he has allowed choices to be made where the side effects of those choices are that hateful, polarizing content gets more distribution and ...
- Chad de Guzman
Oct 5, 2021 · Frances Haugen’s testimony at the Senate hearing today raised serious questions about how Facebook’s algorithms work—and echoes many findings from our previous investigation.
- Karen Hao
Oct 4, 2021 · Before joining Facebook in June 2019, Haugen worked as a product manager for other Silicon Valley heavyweights, including Google, Pinterest and Yelp, according to her LinkedIn profile.
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Oct 6, 2021 · Revelations brought to light from whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former data scientist at Facebook, has led to what may be the most threatening scandal in the company's history. The pressure...
