The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It

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Meet the Facebook whistleblower: 37-year-old Frances Haugen, who was hired to help stop election misinformation and grew frustrated by the company's approach to fixing its flaws

The former Facebook Inc. employee who gathered documents that formed the foundation ofsaid she acted to help prompt change at the social-media giant, not to stir anger toward it.

Frances Haugen, a former product manager hired to help protect against election interference on Facebook, said she had grown frustrated by what she saw as the company’s lack of openness about its platforms’ potential for harm and unwillingness to address its flaws. She is scheduled to testify before Congress on Tuesday. She has also sought federal whistleblower protection with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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What one can do when one is fated failure!

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Nhữ Tường :) :D

Tried to find solutions how its platforms could cause harm under who's order.

Far-left activist advocates for more censorship

This is muh russia op version, what 6 or something

Just like every FB crisis in the past, people just don't care. The biggest proof of this is that FB being down was a bigger headline than this whistleblower story.

Whistle blowers cannot fix the problem that is why they blow the whistles.

“.. could cause harm..” What the hell does that mean? Literally every single thing in the real world has the potential to cause harm. What’s this “whistleblower” willing to trade for her seemingly extreme brand of safetyism? I suspect most or all of the American Experiment. 🖕

Namasiku_Bainga

ITs Not That She Did Not Have Enough Resources Or Power To Act, She Did Exhaust Her Efforts To Convince The Ones facebookdesign With 'Acting Deaf' Ears.

I hate the term whistleblower. Someone exposes the truth about a popular or high profit individual or company and they're labeled a 'whistleblower' like it's a bad thing to do

I expect Facebook will retaliate as hard as Scientology does.

Shes not a whistleblower. She denies there were any riots last year then refers to the Jan 6th protest as 'The insurrection' all the while complaining that theres not enough censorship at facebook.

The majority of users of all 3 Facebook platforms are non-US residents or even english speakers. They don't give a crap of what this woman have to say. Don't even know that there is someone blowing a whistle. Facebook will resume its unstoppable growth shortly. Buy the stock

please stop promoting cowards and dumb bitches. When it comes to digital all you can do is block and turn in to the authorities. We need to make a new branch of the judicial system that is strictly dedicated to the internet and isnt ib3 because they dont do shit. fbi FBIWFO

It's not her company to fix.

Thank God Facebook has a whistleblower. There needs to be more and Zuckerberg needs to start listening because Facebook could be a gift to the world instead of a curse. I too have suffered from Facebook's unwillingness to do the right thing.

Great do Biden next 🤮

Interesting! Now FB and Instagram are down. Zuckerberg knows that Instagram causes depression in teens due to body perception. I wonder if someone disarmed Z's 2 businesses?

Ok chin

Cool so all low level employees who get frustrated that they didnt get their way should feel empowered to steal company data/info.

She should be given proper protection.

These women just want the same recognition as Jesus did.

Tellin us what we already knew...

she need to shut up and let me people do what they been doing facebook is safe she just hating on Mark Zuckerberg Facebook is the only form of contact I have with my friend damn her she is just jealous of the success of facebook

Interesting reading this, while there’s a global Fb, Instagram, WhatsApp outage

neauxbodyfamous

A lot of fb shills in here

Lol

And now it's down all my photos and videos my facebook memories this is sad

DBChirpy With Facebook down, and doors locked, pretty evident they are “fixing” their issues. The shredders are in full swing. AP Reuters afp abc cbs nbc foxnewsradio FoxNews

Now all of a sudden fbook not working 😕 😒

I appreciate what she did, but hasn't she seen The Informant?

she spill all da beans

Facebook conveniently pulled the plugs after seeing this....gotta get things cleaned up before they're back online.

No surprise. Just received a 30 day ban from Facebook for calling out pathetic men making seriously sexist and misogynistic comments on a photograph of a Marvel actress in a low cut dress. Seems like sexist, perverted and misogynistic comments are totally fine

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facebook should be seized under the RICO act NationalizeFacebook

Please let us suffer in peace on Facebook, don't try to fix anything, you'll ruin everything

Yet She is trying to raise $50k for lawyer fees/court (public fundraiser) when she earns at least $300k as a production manager

Wonder if the facebookdown situation has to do with scrubbing every single potential insurrectionist planning site? That would be wicked awesome if that were the case.

Did Facebook get shutdown finally? 🤣🤣

So she couldn’t do her job?

Lock up Zuckerberg.

And they go down. Is it a hissy fit, do they just not want this story to circulate on FB? lol

Facebook is essentially the reason DonaldTrump even exists in a political space .. ask any of your grandparents who now believe in stolen elections, fraudits and anti-vax where they got their initial info from! DeleteFacebook

It's funny seeing people shocked by the 60Minutes interview. If you're in tech, you know this has been going on for years and years and years. In that regard, she's hardly a whistleblower. More like someone stating the obvious. DeleteFacebook

Well she's going to make millions for whistleblowing. Maybe she can make something new? FB seems beyond redemption. Let it become Yahoo

She's literally doing the opposite of what she claims She wants to shut down speech of those she disagrees with

Trying to fix Facebook is an impossible task. The content is user generated. Facebook simply allows people to share their whacky views. As long as we allow newspapers and tabloids to publish editor-reviewed, paid-for nonsense, we're stuck with this world as it is.

You can't fix Facebook. It's a social media platform. Its content is provided by the public. The public will use it as they wish. Anyone with half a brain doesn't use Facebook any more.

This isn't Marjorie Taylor Greene?

Lmaooo go blow your dog

This whole situation is because dumb ass kids don’t know how to control the content THEY interact with. be exacerbating their own insecurities

If some one tried to sue Q?- anon, we'd know who they are by now. It's one of the creators of this hate speech. Facebook didn't make this stuff. Sheesh. I This is my opinion, and I have given it on this public forum. Ignore me if you choose.

Facebook doesn't want to be fixed. It's happy with Automated mods and OBVIOUSLY not reading comments before 'taking action' on that person. It's all automated. Poorly. Facebook even failed protecting people's Data and STILL IS! Plenty of Data Stealing pages being pushed as 'Ads'

ChrisWerner_WL3 DeleteFacebook

We should be asking ourselves why are we clicking on it ?Maybe, the answer would wake us up

Great. Do Fox News next.

Psyop

Someone had to do it!

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... 🌹 Congratulations 😘 ...

horrible

Umm, can someone whistle blow on Twitter next. I see the exact behavior from their platform.

Support her!!

Funny interview, it shows how grey our world is. Someone that genuinely believes that Jan 6 was an insurection attempt (...) should be challenged a bit more on her views and convictions.

facebook seen this? Your house of cards built on censoring truth is crumbling

Company's Approach To Fix ITs Flaws, 1. UNDerMan The Responsible Teams. 2. Unwilling To Accept That They Speak Only Positives Of Their Platform. facebook Needs To Undrstand Dat Helpin National Actors Or National Level Actors 2 TreatDPopulace ThroughAlgorithms Wud B, Criminal.

Quit banning me off Facebook

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wow

She is looking for her 15 minutes of fame. 'Fixing the company'. Give me a break

My colleagues and I from RANDCorporation warned about the ways that divisive content undermines U.S. democracy: There’s no reason not to think the same holds true in countries throughout the world.

Hey , it’s time that you expose the anti-vaccine agenda & Covid lies and propaganda that your sister company, FoxNews broadcasts daily. Also, why does Fox News continue to push the Big Lie? You must know a whistleblower at Fox.

Never knew I would be what I am today after so much suffering so I saw a post about your platform and I took a step to try if it’s going to work, you change my life and now I’m so much satisfied with my life now. I just want to share your good work Dennismayson7

This one should be paywall-free--if you really cared about reaching the folks most effected by this.

Haugen is absolutely right. We need to address the core issue Facebook and work to hold a multi-billion dollar company accountable for its actions.

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