The departure of controversial Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg is unlikely to improve the troubled social media giant, whistleblower Frances Haugen told AFP.
Haugen, a former Facebook engineer who leaked internal documents last year suggesting the firm put profits before safety, pointed out that Sandberg's replacement came from a team whose remit was to help the firm to expand.
The "growth team" was part of the problem and the decision showed the company was "not listening to the heart of the critiques", she said.
Sandberg, the number two at Facebook parent Meta, shocked Silicon Valley last week by announcing she was stepping down after 14 years at the firm, steering its rise from niche social network to ad-tech juggernaut.
But she had increasingly become the public face of a firm beset by scandals over misinformation, data protection and even accusations of fuelling ethnic violence.
Haugen's leaked documents suggested executives knew their platforms could fuel hate speech and damage the mental health of young people.
The revelations led to huge criticism of Sandberg and her boss, Mark Zuckerberg, whose business—renamed Meta in 2021—also includes Instagram and WhatsApp.
'Did she do enough?'
Haugen, speaking to AFP this week ahead of addressing a cybersecurity forum in Lille in northern France, said there was a "fundamental tension" about Sandberg's role.
"Did she do enough to stand up to Mark, or to demand Mark be a better leader? I don't think so."
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