Frances Haugen: Woman Who Leaked “Facebook Files” Reveals Identity

The person responsible for filtering a series of confidential investigations of Facebook revealed his identity this Sunday.

Is about Frances Haugen, 37, who worked as a product manager on Facebook’s civic integrity team.

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In an interview with the program 60 Minutes of the US network CBS, said that the documents it leaked show that the company repeatedly put “growth above the safety” of its users.

Facebook claimed that the leak is misleading, a skewed interpretation of the data, and that it overlooked the positive research conducted. by the company.

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In the interview, Haugen said that he had left Facebook earlier this year after becoming exasperated with the company. Before leaving, he copied a series of memos and internal documents.

The complainant later shared thousands of pages of those documents with the newspaper. The Wall Street Journal, who has published the material in parts during the last three weeks. The disclosure has been called “Facebook Files” or Facebook Files.

The revelations included documents showing that celebrities, politicians and high-profile Facebook users were treated differently by the company.

According to the leaked, Facebook would have applied the moderation policies known as XCheck (cross-check) differently to these accounts or I wouldn’t have applied them at all.

Facebook runs several social media and communication platforms, including Instagram. (Getty Images).

Another leak exposed the complex lawsuit by a group of its own shareholders facing Facebook.

The group alleges, among other things, that Facebook’s $ 5 billion payment to the United States Federal Trade Commission to resolve the Cambridge Analytica data scandal was so high because it was designed to protect founder Mark Zuckerberg.

But it’s the accusations about Instagram that have been particularly troubling to American politicians.

An internal investigation by Facebook (owner of Instagram) found that this social network was affecting the mental health of adolescents, but did not share their findings even when they suggested that the platform was a place “Toxic” for many young people.

According to documents published by The Wall Street Journal, 32% of the teens surveyed said that when they felt bad about their body, Instagram made them feel worse.

Haugen to testify before a U.S. Senate subcommittee on Tuesday in a hearing titled “Protecting Kids Online,” related to the company’s research on the effect of Instagram on the mental health of young users.

Last week, Antigone Davis, Facebook’s global chief security officer, testified in front of US senators. He said the leaks had failed to highlight the positive impact the platform had on teens.

Antigone Davis, Facebook’s global chief security officer, testifies remotely during a hearing at the US Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data on September 30, 2021 (Getty Images).

Haugen, for his part, condemns what his former employer did.

“There were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook,” he said.

“Facebook over and over again chose to optimize it for its own interests, to make more money.”

Haugen also spoke about riots of Capitol in January, stating that Facebook helped fuel violence.

He said Facebook activated security systems to reduce misinformation during the US elections, but only temporarily.

“As soon as the elections were over, they scrapped them, or changed the settings to what they were before, to prioritize growth over security, and that really feels like a betrayal of democracy.”

The platform’s Vice President of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg, told US media CNN that it was ridiculous to suggest that Facebook was responsible for the riots.

“I think it gives people a false consolation assume that there must be a technological or technical explanation for the problems of political polarization in the United States, ”he said.

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