By Pete Symer/ Business Insider India
- In 2021, Frances Haugen leaked internal Meta documents that showed the company knew it caused harm.
- She told The Sunday Times that “tens of millions” will die if social media isn’t overhauled.
Frances Haugen, the Meta whistleblower, told The Sunday Times that “tens of millions” will die if social media isn’t overhauled.
She worked at Facebook until 2021, when The Wall Street Journal published documents that she leaked, known as “The Facebook Files.”
They included research reports and employee discussions that showed that the company knew its platforms caused harm.
For example, The Journal reported that Meta downplayed Instagram’s effects on teenagers’ mental health, and Facebook helped spread religious hatred in India.
Now Haugen has written a memoir in which she says social media is still damaging due to a continued lack of transparency, The Washington Post reported.
She writes that Meta’s profits were contingent on “no one knowing how large the gap between Facebook’s and Instagram’s public narratives and the truth had grown,” per The Post.
PERCEPTION RESET 