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Big Technology Podcast

The Motivations of Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen — With Her Lawyer Lawrence Lessig

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Management, Religion, Politics, Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Investing, Marketing, News Commentary, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Business, Tech News, Philosophy, Government, Technology

4.7596 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Lawrence Lessig is Frances Haguen's lawyer and a Harvard Law School professor. He joins Big Technology Podcast to address the various questions about Haugen's motivations, backers, and intent that have percolated since she came forward. We start by addressing whether the the leaked documents should be available to all and move into the conspiracies about her. A lively discussion follows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.8

Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.

1:03.5

The Facebook whistleblower has been making a lot of news.

1:06.5

You might have heard of her, Francis Hogan.

1:08.6

She is the source of an avalanche of news that we're seeing come across our feeds about Facebook

1:15.7

based off of a cache of internal documents that she's released to a handful of news organizations.

1:23.9

So what does this all mean?

1:26.3

What's going on with the release strategy?

1:28.3

Who is Francis?

1:29.2

Who's backing her?

1:30.5

Lots of questions around it.

1:32.0

You're probably wondering a lot about what is the true nature of the source behind these leaks.

1:37.9

Well, to discuss it, we have a great guest.

1:41.8

His name is Lawrence Lessig.

1:43.9

We're going to call him Larry in the interview.

1:46.5

He is a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Also, former candidate for president.

1:53.8

Remember your campaign very well. And he's acting as a lawyer for Francis Hagen. So he has great insight into what she's up to and what she's aiming for.

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