If you read Frances Haugen’s autobiography “The Truth About Facebook”, you not only learn what a tour de force it was for a whistleblower to stand alone against a corporation like Facebook in order to make grievances public. You also get a glimpse of a digital machine that not even its builders have a handle on. In the summer of two years ago, Frances Haugen turned to das Wall Street Journal and the research network of Southgerman newspaper, NDR and WDR to their “Facebook Files” evaluate. She had smuggled many thousands of documents out of the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park in Silicon Valley. Abysses opened up. Facebook’s role in the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar or the rise in mental illness among teenagers using social media. Shortly before the publication of her book, Frances Haugen reports via Zoom from Puerto Rico, where she has been living since the summer of 2021.
Whistleblower Frances Haugen: Children in danger – culture
