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How Frances Haugen Left Mark Zuckerberg Speechless
Facebook’s whistleblower, who leaked tens of thousands of documents about the company’s algorithms, could succeed where others failed.
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The woman behind Facebook’s most damning-ever leak of internal documents has a name: Frances Haugen.
On Monday, ahead of Facebook’s worst site-wide outage for some time, details about Haugen emerged. She was a product manager on the company’s “civic integrity team,” where she systematically copied tens of thousands of internal documents to share with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, members of Congress and the Wall Street Journal before leaving in May. It could turn out to be the most important act in Facebook’s corporate history.