I knew what my future looked like if I continued to stay inside of Facebook, which is person after person after person has tackled this inside of Facebook and ground themselves to the ground. And I wonder why you take this stand.įrances Haugen: Imagine you know what's going on inside of Facebook and you know no one on the outside knows.
Scott Pelley: You know, someone else might have just quit and moved on. For 15 years she's worked for companies including Google and Pinterest.įrances Haugen: I've seen a bunch of social networks and it was substantially worse at Facebook than anything I'd seen before. And Facebook, over and over again, chose to optimize for its own interests, like making more money.įrances Haugen is 37, a data scientist from Iowa with a degree in computer engineering and a Harvard master's degree in business. Watch Live: Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies before Senate committeeįrances Haugen: 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.Facebook whistleblower says company incentivizes "angry, polarizing, divisive content".Facebook's response to 60 Minutes' report, "The Facebook Whistleblower".But tonight, Frances Haugen is revealing her identity to explain why she became the Facebook whistleblower. The documents appeared first, last month, in the Wall Street Journal. What makes Haugen's complaints unprecedented is the trove of private Facebook research she took when she quit in May.
One complaint alleges that Facebook's Instagram harms teenage girls. The complaints say Facebook's own research shows that it amplifies hate, misinformation and political unrest-but the company hides what it knows. That is a fact that Facebook has been anxious to know since last month when an anonymous former employee filed complaints with federal law enforcement.
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