“Facebook became a $1 trillion company by paying for its profits with our safety, including the safety of our children,” she wrote.
In her statement to the Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, Haugen slammed Facebook’s creation of a “system that amplifies division, extremism, and polarization” around the world. “The thing I saw at Facebook over and over again was there were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook, and Facebook over and over again chose to optimize for its own interests, like making more money,” she told “60 Minutes.” Photo Credit: Robert Fortunato for CBS News/60MINUTES Robert Fortunato for CBS News/60 Minutesįacebook whistleblower revealed on '60 Minutes,' says the company prioritized profit over public goodīut over the better part of two years, she said she began to feel that Facebook wasn’t as committed to ensuring its products furthered the public good. “I felt compelled to take an active role in creating a better, less toxic Facebook.”įrances Haugen, Facebook whistleblower, revealed her identity and spoke her mind in an interview with Scott Pelley on 60 MINUTES Sunday Oct.
“I joined Facebook … because someone close to me was radicalized online,” she said in her comments to the Senate subcommittee. Haugen’s revelations are also important because they come as lawmakers, regulators and activists around the world have repeatedly slammed the company for not doing enough to protect its hundreds of millions of users. She suggested that this decision, in part, allowed the platform to be used to help organize the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill.įacebook says the civic integrity team’s work was distributed to other units when it was dissolved, and the company’s executives have pushed back against accusations it was responsible for the Capitol Hill riot. But she said her feelings about the company started to change when it decided to dissolve its civic integrity team shortly after the election. Haugen took the job at Facebook to work on addressing misinformation, she said in her “60 Minutes” interview. Those issues have been front and center for critics of Facebook and other social media companies, particularly around the coronavirus pandemic and the 2020 US Presidential Election. Haugen, 37, joined Facebook in 2019 to work on civic integrity, including “issues related to democracy and misinformation,” according to her website. “Working at four major tech companies that operate different types of social networks, I have been able to compare and contrast how each company approaches and deals with different challenges,” she wrote in her prepared testimony. She is scheduled to appear Tuesday before the Senate subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security. She specializes in “algorithmic product management,” and has worked on several ranking algorithms similar to the one Facebook uses to organize its main newsfeed, according to her prepared testimony obtained by CNN on Monday. Facebook's services start coming back online after outageĪfter studying electrical and computer engineering, followed by an MBA, Haugen worked at several tech firms starting in 2006, including Google, Pinterest and Yelp.
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