Inside the notoriously insular company, employees’ perceptions of Haugen appear to be divided
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When former
Facebook product manager Frances Haugen testified before the
Senate last Tuesday, she painted an unsightly picture of the social networking company.
As a member of the company’s civic misinformation team for almost two years until her departure in May, Haugen shared insights the company had previously hidden – from Facebook’s willingness to propagate hateful content on its platforms to keep users engaged to research proving Instagram’s detrimental effects on teen girls’ mental health – and leaked thousands of pages of internal documents backing up her claims.