The whistleblower responsible for leaking a whole bunch of internal documents and data from Meta (Facebook) and testifying in front of lawmakers about the social media giant’s behaviour, Frances Haugen, is trying to help others take on Big Tech.
Haugen is looking to start a non-profit organisation that is going to focus on holding companies like Meta accountable for their actions.
According to a Politico report, Haugen wants to call this non-profit ‘Beyond the Screen’, and the organisation is going to focus on three main goals. One, educate lawyers who might go up against social media companies; two, incentivise investors to look into how socially responsible a social platform is before investing in it; and three, helping regulators and researchers get an idea about how these social platforms work.
Haugen told Politico that the disclosures and revelations she made has made people look into what going on beyond their screens and has also changed the calculations on how these (Big Tech) companies are approached.
According to reports, Haugen is already working with two other people on this project and is looking to raise around $5 million in funding to get Beyond the Screen up and working. Reports mention that Haugen has already received “at least some funding from come currently unnamed backers”.
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