From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

I'm here today because I believe Facebook's products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy.

Between a Senate whistleblower hearing and a six-hour service outage, the PR disasters keep mounting for Facebook.

Also on this week's show, what ails the tech giants so much that when its own researchers tell it it's doing wrong, it just goes on doing it?

What really keeps them up at night is this idea that no one wants to use their products anymore, or at least no one that they care about.

Plus how an enormous information leak reveals a shadowy offshore economy

that isn't always so offshore.

What we're seeing with the Pandora papers is that the U.S. itself has become

one of the biggest, if not the biggest, tax haven in the world.

It's all coming up after this.

Music the biggest tax haven in the world. It's all coming up after this. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

To say that this week was a rough one for Facebook would be a bit of an understatement.

Massive and mysterious, a global outage taking down Facebook around the world, along with

Instagram and WhatsApp, which Facebook owns. And then there was the whistleblower. Her name is

Francis Howgan. 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.

A former product manager at the social network telling 60 minutes when she joined the company, she wanted to focus on combating misinformation.

But after a little more than a year, she says she became so disillusioned.

She filed an anonymous complaint with the SEC and provided thousands of pages of internal

company research accusing her. After revealing her identity Sunday, Howgan testified before Congress

on Tuesday, and she didn't mince her words there either.

I joined Facebook because I think Facebook has the potential to bring out the best in us.

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