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Ex-Harvard scholar claims she was ousted for pointing out Facebook's 'digital harms'
Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropic organization pledged $500 million to Harvard. Joan Donovan claims she was fired after criticizing Facebook.
Facebook whistleblower creates nonprofit to fight social media harms
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is launching a nonprofit organization that will seek solutions to harms created by social media.
Meta, Instagram hit with 8 lawsuits for 'exploiting young people for profit'
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is facing eight new lawsuits.
Zuckerberg and Facebook tried to divide Dems, GOP over whistleblower: report
Mark Zuckerberg urged his employees not to apologize for Facebook's ills as staffers called lawmakers in Washington, D.C. in an effort to discredit whistleblower Frances Haugen, The Wall Street Journal...
Meta investors push for harder line against 'harmful content' aimed at teens
Meta shareholders are pushing the Facebook and Instagram parent company to take a harder line against “harmful content” targeted at teens on its site, as well as coronavirus-related misinformation.
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen inks book deal
Little, Brown and Co. announced Thursday that it had acquired a planned memoir “offering a critical examination of Facebook” by former staffer and whistleblower Frances Haugen.
Instagram boss grilled at Congressional hearing over teen safety
Instagram boss Adam Mosseri took the hot seat Wednesday to defend the social media app from growing bipartisan anger over its potential harm to young users.
Instagram CEO to testify before Congress amid damning allegations
Mosseri’s appearance will come more than two months after an executive at Instagram's parent company, Meta -- which also owns Facebook -- testified before lawmakers in the wake of bombshell...
Facebook critics love whistleblower Frances Haugen's leaks but hate her policy ideas
Facebook critics have a Frances Haugen problem: Many love that the whistleblower leaked a trove of documents exposing many of the tech giant’s worst problems — but hate her ideas...
What the Zuck? Mark angrily accuses whistleblowers, media of plotting against Facebook amid bad press
Mark Zuckerberg angrily fired back at a torrent of bad press on Monday, accusing whistleblowers and reporters of plotting against the company as it posted better-than-expected quarterly profits. “My view...
Why Facebook whistleblower and her 'crypto friends' moved to Puerto Rico
When Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen isn’t flying around the world urging lawmakers to regulate her ex-employer, she’s apparently living off little-taxed cryptocurrency profits in her new home of Puerto Rico....
Facebook failed to police abusive content globally, documents show
Facebook employees warned the company for years that it was failing to effectively respond to abusive and harmful content, particularly in developing countries, according to leaked documents.
Whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies as UK scrutinizes Facebook
Former Facebook data scientist Frances Haugen plans to answer questions Monday from lawmakers in the United Kingdom who are working on legislation to rein in the power of social media...
Facebook misled investors as it lost young users, whistleblower alleges
Facebook allegedly misled investors and masked slowing growth among critical demographics like young users in the US, according to internal documents leaked by whistleblower Frances Haugen.
Facebook's oversight board to meet with whistleblower Frances Haugen
Facebook's oversight board, a body set up by the social network to give independent verdicts on a small number of thorny content decisions, said on Monday it would meet with...
What Facebook 'whistleblower' really wants: more censorship of conservative views
How convenient that Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen just gave the social network another excuse to crack down on conservative content.
Face Off! Mark Zuckerberg responds to Facebook whistleblower
Mark Zuckerberg shot back at the whistleblower who testified that the Facebook CEO has no accountability for the Big Tech giant at a Senate hearing Tuesday.
5 takeaways from the Facebook whistleblower's Senate testimony
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified in front of a key Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, sounding the alarm about everything from Instagram’s effect on teen girls to the national security threats.
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is right about the Facebook problem — but wrong about cure
Congressional Democrats and the corporate press are sanctifying Haugen as an “American hero,” but Haugen, however hard she tries to be, is not the protagonist of this story.
What the Zuck? Facebook whistleblower says tech giant misleads public, warns CEO 'accountable to no one'
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen blasted the tech giant during Senate testimony on Tuesday, accusing chief executive Mark Zuckerberg of putting profits over safety and calling for government regulators to step...