{"id":3191,"date":"2021-10-10T07:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T05:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/10\/frances-haugen-takes-on-facebook-the-making-of-a-modern-us-hero\/"},"modified":"2021-10-10T07:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T05:36:05","slug":"frances-haugen-takes-on-facebook-the-making-of-a-modern-us-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/10\/frances-haugen-takes-on-facebook-the-making-of-a-modern-us-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Haugen takes on Facebook: the making of a modern US hero"},"content":{"rendered":"

In her explosive Senate testimony, the former employee exposed how the tech giant puts profit before the public good<\/p>\n

The journey from disillusioned ex-employee to modern-day heroine took Frances Haugen less than five months. The 37-year-old logged out of Facebook\u2019s company network for the last time in May and last week was being publicly lauded a \u201c21st-century American hero\u201d on Washington\u2019s Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

That journey was paved with tens of thousands of internal documents, taken from Facebook\u2019s internal system by Haugen, that formed the backbone of a series of damning revelations first published in the Wall Street Journal<\/em> last month. They revealed that Facebook knew its products were damaging the mental health of teenage girls<\/a>, resisted changes that would make the content of its main platform less divisive and knew its main platform was being used to incite ethnic violence<\/a> in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

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\nIn her explosive Senate testimony, the former employee exposed how the tech giant puts profit before the public good
\nThe journey from disillusioned ex-employee to modern-day heroine took Frances Haugen less than five months. The 37-year-old logged out of Facebook\u2019s company network for the last time in May and last week was being publicly lauded a \u201c21st-century American hero\u201d on Washington\u2019s Capitol Hill.
\nThat journey was paved with tens of thousands of internal documents, taken from Facebook\u2019s internal system by Haugen, that formed the backbone of a series of damning revelations first published in the Wall Street Journal last month. They revealed that Facebook knew its products were damaging the mental health of teenage girls, resisted changes that would make the content of its main platform less divisive and knew its main platform was being used to incite ethnic violence in Ethiopia. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In her explosive Senate testimony, the former employee exposed how the tech giant puts profit before the public good The journey from disillusioned ex-employee to modern-day heroine took Frances Haugen less than five months. The 37-year-old logged out of Facebook\u2019s company network for the last time in May and last week was being publicly lauded …<\/p>\n

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