How one Facebook worker unfriended the giant social network
Less than two years after Facebook hired Frances Haugen to help correct dangerous distortions spilling across its platform, she had seen enough.
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Less than two years after Facebook hired Frances Haugen to help correct dangerous distortions spilling across its platform, she had seen enough.
Less than two years after Facebook hired Frances Haugen to help correct dangerous distortions spilling across its platform, she had seen enough. The idealism she and countless others had invested in promises by the world’s biggest social network to fix itself had been woefully misplaced. The harm Facebook and sibling Instagram were doing to users was rivaled only by the company’s resistance to change, she concluded. And the world beyond Facebook needed to know. On Tuesday last week, when the 37-year-old data scientist went before the US Congress and the cameras to accuse Facebook of pursui...
The 37-year-old data scientist went before Congress and the cameras last week to accuse Facebook of pursuing profit over safety last week.
The 37-year-old data scientist went before Congress and the cameras last week to accuse Facebook of pursuing profit over safety last week.
Ex-Facebook employee Frances Haugen's congressional testimony cast a vital spotlight on an industry that has become one of society’s most powerful forces: The era of the Big Tech whistleblower has