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Frances Haugen has never met Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but she hopes to one day.
That's what the Facebook whistleblower told journalist Kara Swisher on the New York Times podcast "Sway" on Monday. Haugen also laid out what she'd say to Zuckerberg if they ever do meet.
"I would say, Mark, you are a very smart person," Haugen said on the podcast. "You have so much capacity. You have the ability to build any version of Facebook you want to build. You're the only person in the world who can govern Facebook."
Haugen also pointed to Zuckerberg's dwindling popularity over the years but expressed her optimism that this could change.
"You don't have to live the life you've been living," she said. "You don't have to be afraid of people knocking on your door. You don't have to be afraid of people glaring at you at a restaurant. You don't have to be afraid of your kids having horrible things said to them at school."
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