What happened to make Frances Haugen simultaneously a hero to both parties in Congress and Mark Zuckerberg’s most dangerous critic? WIRED interviewed her to find out. (From 2021)
several weeks later) understood the harm it was doing and how insufficient its remedies were. In October,: The whistleblower was a 37-year-old former product manager named Frances Haugen.
Frances Haugen in a Beijing restaurant in July 2007. She is pictured with Megan Quinn, then at Google and now the COO of Niantic Labs.I got put on a performance improvement plan because my manager thought I was faking when in fact I was dying. I had a foot-long clot in my leg, and I was starving to death. I don't want this to be construed as criticism of Google, because even my own doctors were not able to put their finger on it.
I got approached by a recruiter in December of 2018. I said the only thing I would work on is civic misinformation. I think we need a lot more people working inside Facebook to fix Facebook's problems. I strongly encourage people to work at Facebook. At some point, I would have had to still go. At some point, you have to begin the conversation. But I don't think I would have left at that instant.
With regard to “Why me?” I knew that because I had worked on multiple algorithmic products at multiple social media companies, I could speak with a higher level of credibility than other people. And I knew that I could explain these things. And because Facebook was my fourth social media company, I could say with credibility that things there were substantially worse than I had seen in other places.
Personally. I’m lucky. When you hear someone's brave, you should hear their privilege. I sold my house when Covid came, so I don't have a mortgage. I love children, I want to have children, but I'm also 37, and I don't have kids now. And I have enough resources where I can probably be fine. I'm not independently wealthy to the point where I never need to work again. But I have enough.
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