Facebook hired Frances Haugen to help it filter out violent rhetoric and abusive behavior.
But she says the company ignored her team’s recommendations.
So, in 2021, she leaked thousands of pages of internal documents to the media.
"It erodes our faith in each other, it erodes our ability to want to care for each other, the version of Facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart."
She testified before Congress:
"I saw Facebook repeatedly encounter conflicts between its own profits and our safety. Facebook consistently resolve these conflicts in favor of its own profits."
Now, she has a new memoir, "The Power of One."
"We deserve to know what the risks are of the projects we use. We deserve to be able to ask questions and get real answers. And that's, if we don't push for that, we're, we're not going to be able to live in a world with safe technology."
Today, On Point: Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.
Frances Haugen, data engineer who worked for Facebook from 2019 to 2021. Author of "The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook."
Excerpt of "The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook." All rights reserved. Not to be republished without permission.
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