Facebook has paid for profits with our safety, whistleblower Frances Haugen has claimed.
Frances Haugen previously worked as a product manager on the civic integrity team at Facebook.
In the past she leaked documents which she claimed proved that Facebook prioritised growth over people's safety.
Frances Haugen spokes to LBC's Eddie Mair about Ian Russell, who chairs the Molly Rose Foundation - a suicide-prevention charity set up in memory of his 14-year-old daughter Molly who took her own life in 2017.
Mr Russell, who Frances Haugen has before met, has previously said: "I have no doubt that social media helped kill my daughter".
Frances Haugen told Eddie: "One of the things that I've really felt is like a blessing of this whole experience is people have come up to me regularly and tell me very intimate stories about their experiences with social media.
Speaking of Ian Russel, she said: "A tragedy has occurred. HIs daughter died.
"And moments like that really remind me why I'm doing this - which is that Facebook has made a series of choices that prioritised its own profits, paid for its own profits with our safety.
"And there are real human consequences, like the death of Ian Russell's daughter."
In response to being asked about the UK's Online Safety Bill, she said: "The tech industry as a whole, which has an outsized impact on our daily lives, has much less oversight and transparency than other comparably powerful. industries.
"And so I'm super excited that the UK is...
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