Frances Haugen will forever be known as Facebook’s whistleblower. In her final weeks at the company, she worked daily with a Wall Street Journal reporter to drain Facebook’s servers of damning documents that showed how the platform and its leader, Mark Zuckerberg, refused to address major problems despite well-documented pleas from employees.
On September 13, 2021, the Journal began publishing “The Facebook Files”—an expose that surfaced, among other things, the mental health toll Instagram was taking on teenage girls, Facebook’s secret program giving special status to millions of influential users, and the algorithms that promoted the worst kind of content. At the time, the source of that shocking cache was unnamed. Three weeks later, Haugen revealed
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