Facebook whistleblower to testify on tech giant before Senate committee
ABC News
The Facebook whistleblower who unearthed documents showing the company had knowledge of its platforms' negative impact will appear before a Senate subcommittee Tuesday.
The Facebook whistleblower who unearthed documents she says shows the company had knowledge of its platforms' negative impact will appear before a Senate subcommittee Tuesday.
Frances Haugen, who revealed her identity during a Sunday interview on CBS' "60 Minutes" has been cooperating with a Senate Commerce subcommittee as part of its ongoing efforts to assess potential regulations for the social media giant.
Documents obtained by Haugen, a former product manager at Facebook, led to a series from the Wall Street Journal that reported that Facebook commissioned studies about and knew of potential harm that it was causing from negative or inflammatory content and did not act to stop it. Among the findings cited in the report were that Instagram made body image issues worse for one in three teens.
ABC News has not independently reviewed these documents, but Haugen is expected to tell the Senate subcommittee about the evidence she reportedly has that she says shows that the company intentionally ignored evidence of its potentially harmful impact.
