| Frances Haugen, who testified Tuesday before the Senate, left Facebook with tens of thousands of pages of its internal research and communications, and her pleas to change the company have broken through, winning bipartisan support and calls for more regulation. She's withstood challenges so far through careful planning and deep research, and she's steeped in the culture of Silicon Valley, according to interviews with more than a half-dozen friends, former colleagues and professors.
A believer in the power of data to tell a story, Haugen saw an opportunity to turn Facebook's biggest weapon — its ability to collect and measure the human experience — against it. |
| | | | Technology Alert | Oct. 11, 1:42 p.m. EDT | | | | | Frances Haugen, who testified Tuesday before the Senate, left Facebook with tens of thousands of pages of its internal research and communications, and her pleas to change the company have broken through, winning bipartisan support and calls for more regulation. She's withstood challenges so far through careful planning and deep research, and she's steeped in the culture of Silicon Valley, according to interviews with more than a half-dozen friends, former colleagues and professors.
A believer in the power of data to tell a story, Haugen saw an opportunity to turn Facebook's biggest weapon — its ability to collect and measure the human experience — against it. | | | | | |
