The wrong man has the ear of Mark Zuckerberg, according to tireless Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.
The former company executive who previously leaked thousands of internal Facebook papers and testified before the US Senate and British parliament last year, told The Times that Zuckerberg and his senior team continued to “pursue growth at all costs” and found any detractors’ claims that Facebook could breed hatred and enmity hard to swallow.
Haugen called Zuckerberg “a boy prince” whose entire identity was bound up with his era-defining creation. Haugen said, “Can you imagine finding out your entire life’s work — it causes genocides? It’s an impossible thought.”
And she was particularly contemptuous of Zuckerberg’s newly promoted acolyte Sir Nick Clegg, formerly the UK’s deputy Prime Minister and now president of global affairs at Facebook’s parent company Meta. Haugen claimed that Clegg was used to being unpopular in his previous political role and had persuaded Zuckerberg to ignore criticism as they were following the right path. She said of Clegg, “It can be very hard for people to believe a truth that conflicts with their paycheck.”
Clegg previously responded to Haugen’s damning testimony about the harm Facebook was causing young people. He told CNN’s State of the Union in October 2021, ““We understand the concerns of some that we need to press pause, listen to experts, explain our intentions and so on.”
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