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• Jill Biden will have guests for tonight's State of the Union and they include some notable names.
• Oksana Markarova, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the US, and Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, will be in attendance.
• The tradition of having guests at the State of the Union began with President Reagan.

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First Lady Jill Biden's State of the Union guests will include Oksana Markarova, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the US, and Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, whose revelations about the social network sparked international fervor about the company.

Markarova's attendance comes as the US and Western nations levy historically harsh sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.

Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, came forward last year as the main source behind the Wall Street Journal's series of exposés about Facebook's practices. She later testified before Congress about how the company knew it was causing mental harm to young users on products like Instagram but refused to...

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