The power of one how I found the strength to tell the truth and why I blew the whistle on Facebook
"The inside story of one woman's battles against Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who is determined to help us all retake control of our lives. In 2021, when news outlets feasted on "the Facebook Files," Frances Haugen went public as the former employee who blew the whistl...
| Main Author: | Haugen, Frances (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Little, Brown and Company,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"The inside story of one woman's battles against Big Tech, by the Facebook whistleblower who is determined to help us all retake control of our lives. In 2021, when news outlets feasted on "the Facebook Files," Frances Haugen went public as the former employee who blew the whistle on the company by copying tens of thousands of pages of documents. She testified to Congress and spoke to the media. She was hailed at President Biden's first State of the Union Address. She made sure everyone understood exactly what the documents revealed: Facebook knew it had accidentally changed its algorithm to reward extremism and refused to fix it; it knew that its customers were using the platform to foment violence, to spread falsehoods, to diminish the self-esteem of young women, and more. But how was it that Haugen was the only employee at the company who dared to step forward?" -- |
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| Item Description: |
Includes index. |
| Physical Description: |
340 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780316475228 031647522X |
| Author Notes: |
Frances Haugen is an American data engineer and scientist, and whistleblower. A graduate of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and Harvard Business School, she worked at Google, Yelp, and Pinterest before joining Facebook in 2019 and working in its civic integrity department. In the spring of 2021, she disclosed tens of thousands of internal documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Wall Street Journal , revealing Facebook's awareness and complicity in radicalization and political violence around the world. |