Haugen’s actions were a sign of how Facebook has turned increasingly leaky. On Tuesday, she is scheduled to testify in Congress about Facebook’s impact on young users. And she has talked with lawmakers such as Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat of Connecticut, and Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Republican of Tennessee, and shared subsets of the documents with them. Haugen has also filed a whistle-blower complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, accusing Facebook of misleading investors with public statements that did not match its internal actions. The revelations - including that Facebook knew Instagram was worsening body image issues among teenagers and that it had a two-tier justice system - have spurred criticism from lawmakers, regulators and the public. Haugen gave many of the documents to The Wall Street Journal, which last month began publishing the findings. She added, “Facebook, over and over again, has shown it chooses profit over safety.” “I’ve seen a bunch of social networks and it was substantially worse at Facebook than what I had seen before,” Ms. So she copied pages of Facebook’s internal research and decided to do something about it.
The company repeatedly put its own interests first rather than the public’s interest, she said. Haugen, 37, said she had grown alarmed by what she saw at Facebook. In an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday, Ms.
Haugen has used the documents she amassed to expose how much Facebook knew about the harms that it was causing and provided the evidence to lawmakers, regulators and the news media. A product manager who worked for nearly two years on the civic misinformation team at the social network before leaving in May, Ms. On Sunday, Frances Haugen revealed herself to be “Sean,” the whistle-blower against Facebook.
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