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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics.

It's Thursday, October 7th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

Last month, the Wall Street Journal began publishing a series of reports that they called the Facebook files.

Based on leaked internal documents, the series highlights how Facebook has stoked fear, anger,

and division in order to increase user engagement and then failed to effectively fight the spread

of misinformation and the use of its platform to exploit and abuse vulnerable communities

around the world. This week, the whistleblower who supplied the internal Facebook documents to the Wall Street Journal

revealed herself.

Frances Hogan is a data engineer who worked at Facebook from 2019 to 2021.

On Tuesday, she testified before a group from the Senate Commerce Committee about how decisions were made at the biggest social media platform in the world.

During my time at Facebook, first working as the lead product manager for civic misinformation and later on counter espionage,

I saw Facebook repeatedly encounter conflicts between its own

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