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Philip Boverman
In early October last year, a woman named Frances Haugen sat before the US Senate and said her former employer, Facebook, chooses profit “every time” in the conflict between profits and protecting public safety. Shortly before, the former product manager had passed on a mountain of incriminating information from inside to media such as the US news program “60 Minutes” and the research association Süddeutsche Zeitung, NDR and WDR. the “Facebook Files” showed: Facebook knew in detail that its platforms fuel hatred, populism and lies, but did not change its business model.