The woman who disclosed Facebook malpractice last year is advising Elon Musk to make Twitter's algorithm public if he truly wants to have an open online public square.
Frances Haugen also said that social media sites push back so ferociously on government intervention because accountability could mean that profit margins see a sharp decrease by at least 20 percent.
The former product manager on Facebook's civic integrity team joined a special edition of NBC's Meet the Press focused on 'how social media is shaping our politics' on Sunday morning. Haugen is particularly poised to speak on the topic after blowing the whistle on what she described as a pattern of Facebook prioritizing profit over public safety.
She disclosed tens of thousands of internal Facebook documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and The Wall Street Journal in 2021.
'One of the most important things Elon Musk could do to prove that he wants to have the public square is he could publish the algorithms,' Haugen said.
WATCH: Facebook whistleblower @FrancesHaugen calls on @elonmusk to “publish the algorithms.”
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) January 1, 2023
“If he wants to have the public square … open source it.” pic.twitter.com/DphkeBYd38
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