The Specialist “algorithmic rankings” left the social network, taking thousands of documents to internal forums and organizes since his revelations, a media outlet and political ball.
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“I felt that in the face of conflicts of interest between its profits and the protection of users, Facebook chose repeatedly profits.” Frances Haugen explained well why she became “the Facebook pitcher warning “to the US Senate committee who auditioned on Tuesday 5th October. In May, this employee of 37 years decided to leave the social network, taking thousands of documents to internal forums.
M me Haugen is a specialist in “algorithmic rankings” that are used to prioritize content on the platforms. After a management degree from Harvard University and studied computer science, she was hired by Google and then passed through social networking Pinterest and Yelp, before joining Facebook in 2019. Motivated by the ” loss of a friend fell into misinformation “, she joined the team” civic integrity “, in charge of fighting against the” fake news “and hate speech, especially in elections. M me Haugen said then gradually be discouraged because of too limited budgets or its inability to reduce problems in developing countries. The “drop” has been dismantled, the end of 2020, the “civic integrity” team by Facebook, who said to have distributed the tasks in other services.
Eight complaints
Frances Haugen is not the first employee from Facebook to resign, nor the first ethicist to criticize the business of digital giant. What distinguishes it is the aspect very structured in its approach. She has set up a media sequence and the ball policy surveys in the Wall Street Journal interview with the magazine “60 Minutes” broadcast on US television network CBS News, where she reveals, hearing before the Committee in which it transmitted its documents …
It is also very supported by Whistleblower Aid, an NGO specializing in helping whistleblowers, founded by attorney John Tye, who himself had denounced the actions of the US National Security Agency . This association is based on the protected status of whistleblower, created by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, with a specific office in the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It is also at this policeman financial markets that it has filed eight complaints ensuring that Facebook has lied to investors. And Whistleblower Aid also fits into its strategy the “offsets” that the SEC may grant whistleblowers for their information, sometimes in the millions of dollars.
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