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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said the social media giant won't be able to recover until Mark Zuckerberg steps down as chief executive.
In an interview with Bloomberg, she spoke about what compelled her to go public after she left the company in May 2021.
Haugen took tens of thousands of pages of documents that showed the social media giant knew its products were damaging teenagers' mental health, fomenting ethnic violence in countries such as Ethiopia, and were failing to curb misinformation before the Washington DC riots on January 6 last year.
She told Bloomberg that Zuckerberg "genuinely believes that Facebook is just a mirror" of reality, and that "you are unhappy because you can see it now."
"Mark has been surrounded by people since he was 19 years old who told him he was doing a great job," adding "we can demonize Zuckerberg, but it's not going to make him heal faster."
Haugen added that, unlike most other public companies, Zuckerberg...
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