Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, October 4th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Last night an ex-facing product manager named Francis Hogan came forward as the key source behind the Wall Street Journal's Facebook files series, giving an interview to 60 minutes and saying she became alarmed by how profits increasingly came before public safety at Facebook,

quoting the Wall Street Journal.

Francis Hogan, a former product manager hired

to help protect against election interference on Facebook,

said she had grown frustrated by what she saw

as the company's lack of openness

about its platform's potential for harm and unwillingness to address its flaws.

She is scheduled to testify before Congress on Tuesday. She has also sought federal

whistleblower protection with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In a series of interviews, Ms. Houghgan, who left the company in May after nearly two years,

said that she had come into the job with high hopes of helping Facebook fix its weaknesses. She soon grew skeptical that her team

could make an impact, she said. Her team had few resources, she said, and she

felt the company put growth and user engagement ahead of what it knew through its own research about its platforms

ill effects.

Toward the end of her time at Facebook, Ms. Houghgan said she came to believe that people

outside the company, including lawmakers and regulators regulators should know what she had discovered

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