After the articles about Facebook were published, the United States Senate Commerce Committee's Sub-Committee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security scheduled two hearings, beginning with Antigone Davis, the global head of safety for Facebook, on September 30, 2021, and the then-anonymous whistleblower on October 5, 2021. The Facebook Files īeginning in September 2021, The Wall Street Journal published The Facebook Files: A Wall Street Journal Investigation, a series of news reports "based on a review of internal Facebook documents, including research reports, online employee discussions and drafts of presentations to senior management." The investigation is a multi-part series, with nine reports including an examination of exemptions for high-profile users, impacts on youth, the impacts of its 2018 algorithm changes, weaknesses in the response to human trafficking and drug cartels, vaccine misinformation, and a later article about Haugen, who gathered the documents that supported the investigative reports. In the late summer of 2021, she began meeting with members of the United States Congress, including Senator Richard Blumenthal and Senator Marsha Blackburn. In the spring of 2021, she contacted John Tye, a founder of the nonprofit law firm Whistleblower Aid, for help, and Tye agreed to represent her and to help protect her anonymity. While at Facebook, she decided it was important to become a whistleblower due to what she has since described as a pattern of Facebook prioritizing profit over public safety, and left her position at Facebook in May 2021. Following the 2020 American election Facebook dissolved its civic integrity team, and Haugen became disillusioned. When Facebook recruited her, she expressed interest in a role related to misinformation, and in 2019, she became a product manager in the Facebook civic integrity team. In 2019, Haugen joined Facebook, because someone close to her was radicalized online and she "felt compelled to take an active role in creating a better, less toxic Facebook". In 2015, she began work as a data product manager at Yelp to improve search using image recognition, and after a year, moved to Pinterest. While at Google, she was a technical co-founder of the desktop dating app Secret Agent Cupid, precursor to the mobile app Hinge. During her career at Google, she completed her MBA, which was paid for by Google. At Google, Haugen co-authored a patent for a method of adjusting the ranking of search results. In 2006, after graduating from college, Haugen was hired by Google, and worked on Google Ads, Google Book Search, a class action litigation settlement related to Google publishing book content, as well as Google+. She later earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 2011. Olin College of Engineering and graduated in 2006. Haugen studied electrical and computer engineering in the founding class at the Franklin W. Her father was a doctor, and her mother became an Episcopalian priest after an academic career. Haugen was raised in Iowa City, Iowa, where she attended Horn Elementary and Northwest Junior High School, and graduated from Iowa City West High School in 2002. She disclosed tens of thousands of Facebook's internal documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and The Wall Street Journal in 2021. Data scientist and engineer, product managerįrances Haugen (born 1983 or 1984 ) is an American product manager, data engineer and scientist, and whistleblower.
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