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Behind the Money

Frances Haugen’s lessons as a Facebook whistleblower

Behind the Money

Topher Forhecz

Markets, Investing, News, Banking, Finance, Business, Business News, Crypto

4.4350 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Frances Haugen was just another Silicon Valley tech worker until she decided to speak up about what was happening inside Facebook. Now she’s written a book about her experience titled The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook. Frances talks to Michela about what she’s learned. 


Clips from CBS, CNBC 

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For further reading:

Who is Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen?

Facebook after the whistleblower: can Zuckerberg reboot the social network?

The FT’s 25 most influential women of 2021 

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On Twitter, follow Michela Tindera (@mtindera07)


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com



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A few years ago, Francis Houghgan made a choice that would change her life.

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She decided to become a whistleblower, an action that would also change how the world saw

0:41.6

her employer, Facebook.

0:45.0

She began quietly collecting tens of thousands of pages of internal corporate documents.

0:51.3

These documents, she says, would show that in short, Facebook was putting profits

0:56.1

over the well-being of its users.

0:58.8

From how the company oversaw hate speech in India, to how it negatively impacted teenagers mental health.

1:05.6

She shared those documents with a reporter from the Wall Street Journal and the

1:10.2

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or SEC.

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