Just a few months later, social media communications would be a key focus in the wake of the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. She said Facebook had announced it was dissolving the 'Civic Integrity' team, to which she was assigned, after the election. Haugen pointed to the 2020 election as a turning point at Facebook. Haugen in turn copied and released tens of thousands of pages of documents, '60 Minutes' reported. Haugen said she decided this year to make Facebook's internal communications public, saying she realized she would need to do so 'in a systemic way' and 'get out enough that no one can question that this is real.'

'The whole point is understanding how we can be better and make a better experience.' 'If we were a company who didn't care about safety, if we were about trying to prioritize profit over safety, we wouldn't do this kind of research,' Bickert said. For example, the Journal reported that one internal document found that of teens reporting suicidal thoughts, 6% of American users traced the urge to kill themselves to Instagram.įacebook VP of Content Policy Monika Bickert addressed the research in an interview on CNBC's 'Squawk Box' Monday. The documents, first reported by the Journal, revealed that Facebook executives had been aware of negative impacts of its platforms on some young users, among other findings. Jeff Horwitz, the Journal reporter who wrote the series of articles based on the leaked documents, also shared Haugen's identity on Twitter on Sunday night, revealing her as the key source behind the stories. Haugen told '60 Minutes' she left Facebook in May. 'I've seen a bunch of social networks and it was substantially worse at Facebook than anything I'd seen before,' Haugen told '60 Minutes.' She also lists herself as the technical co-founder behind the dating app Hinge, saying she took its precursor, Secret Agent Cupid, to market.

Haugen previously worked as a product manager at Pinterest, Yelp and Google, according to her LinkedIn profile.

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