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- 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 ...
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Frances Haugen (born 1983 or 1984) is an American product manager, data engineer and scientist, and whistleblower. She disclosed tens of thousands of Facebook's internal documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and The Wall Street Journal in 2021.
- Data scientist and engineer, product manager
- franceshaugen.com
- Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.
Nov 22, 2021 · Haugen says she wanted to cross the Atlantic to offer her advice to lawmakers putting the final touches on new regulations that take aim at the outsize influence of large social media companies.
May 6, 2024 · About Frances Haugen. Haugen is a data engineer, technologist and whistleblower. In 2021, she made global headlines by releasing tens of thousands of pages of Facebook's internal data...
Oct 5, 2021 · A native of Iowa City, Iowa, she studied electrical and computer engineering at Olin College and got an M.B.A. from Harvard. She then worked at various Silicon Valley companies, including Google,...
Mar 4, 2023 · Haugen was a product manager at Facebook until May 2021 and has worked for several major tech and social media companies during her 15-year career. Haugen revealed her identity during an...
