Her name is Frances Haugen. That is a fact that Facebook has been anxious to know since last month when an anonymous former employee filed complaints …
Tech's 2021: The Facebook Papers
Mark Zuckerberg's social media company ends the year embroiled in controversy once again. Former employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen shared internal documents suggesting Facebook knew about the damage it was causing on people's mental health and on society as a whole, but did little to stop it. The so-called "Facebook Papers" presented an eye-opening look inside the Silicon Valley company, especially as it sets sights on dominating the metaverse.
Chronicling Frances Haugen's Revealations About Facebook
The Facebook Papers project represents a unique collaboration among 17 American news organizations, including The Associated Press. Journalists from a variety of newsrooms, large and small, worked together to gain access to thousands of pages of internal company documents obtained by Frances …
Thousands of leaked documents highlight employees’ disillusionment with spread of misinformation and calls to violence. Hours after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, posted on the company’s internal message board. “Hang in there everyone,” …
Facebook is facing a historic crisis. Revelations brought to light from whistleblower Frances Haugen, a former data scientist at Facebook, has led to what may be the most threatening scandal in the company's history. The pressure was turned up on Tuesday, when Haugen testified before a Senate …
CNN Business — Just days after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6th, Facebook’s Chief Operational Officer Sheryl Sandberg downplayed her company’s role in what had happened. “We know this was organized online. We know that,” she said in an interview with Reuters. “We… took down QAnon, …
Leaked documents reveal a huge, opaque system At the end of 2019, the group of Facebook employees charged with preventing harms on the network gathered to discuss the year ahead. At the Civic Summit, as it was called, leaders announced where they would invest resources to provide enhanced …
Thousands of pages of internal documents offer the clearest picture yet of how Facebook endangers American democracy—and show that the company’s own employees know it. Before I tell you what happened at exactly 2:28 p.m. on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, at the White House—and how it elicited a very …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg came out swinging at the start of the company's third-quarter earnings call Monday, defending its research on how its …
Whistleblower says a new CEO should prioritise online safety over Meta restructure
BRUSSELS (AP) — Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen warned Tuesday that the “metaverse,” the all-encompassing virtual reality world at the heart of the social media giant’s growth strategy, will be addictive and rob people of yet more personal information while giving the embattled company …