Meeting in New York: Frances Haugen continues her crusade against Zuckerberg

– Frances Haugen continues her crusade against Zuckerberg

A year after her sensational revelations about the dangers of Facebook and Instagram, the whistleblower is launching an NGO to make social networks healthier.

Alexis Buisson – New York

Posted today at 12:27 p.m.

Frances Haugen in New York, September 22, 2022, where she presented her NGO, “Beyond the Screen”, which aims to document the legal and ethical shortcomings of major platforms and identify solutions.

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A year ago, the world discovered Frances Haugen. A former Facebook employee, the 30-year-old with piercing blue eyes had decided to turn against her company by “leaking” thousands of internal documents from the daily “The Wall Street Journal”. Revealed in a series of damning articles from September 2021, the latter showed in particular that the leaders of the powerful company were aware of the harmful effects of their platforms on the mental health of adolescent girls.

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