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This is an audio transcript of the Behind the Money podcast episode: ‘Frances Haugen’s lessons as a Facebook whistleblower’
Michela Tindera
A few years ago, Frances Haugen made a choice that would change her life. She decided to become a whistleblower — an action that would also change how the world saw her employer, Facebook. She began quietly collecting tens of thousands of pages of internal corporate documents. These documents, she says, would show that, in short, Facebook was putting profits over the wellbeing of its users. From how the company oversaw hate speech in India to how it negatively impacted teenagers’ mental health, she shared those documents with a reporter from The Wall Street Journal and the US Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC.
Frances Haugen
In the moment that I made the decisions, I didn’t really think that much about any of the consequences.
Michela Tindera
And after she quit her job at Facebook, now known as Meta, in May of 2021, she had a lot of time to think.
Frances Haugen
Because I was in a position where I couldn’t do anything, right. Like I was done. I wasn’t at Facebook anymore. Like, I just had to sit and wait for a couple of months.
Michela Tindera
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