Fb whistleblower reveals identification forward of Senate listening to By Reuters

By Sheila Dang

(Reuters) – A former Fb Inc (NASDAQ:) worker revealed herself on Sunday because the whistleblower who leaked a trove of inside firm analysis that served as the premise of a Wall Avenue Journal investigative collection.

The leak led to a Senate listening to and a brand new wave of criticism over the detrimental impression of the social media large’s apps.

Frances Haugen appeared on Sunday on the tv program “60 Minutes.” She’s going to testify earlier than a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday in a listening to titled “Defending Youngsters On-line,” in regards to the firm’s analysis into Instagram’s impact on the psychological well being of younger customers.

Final week, a Fb government testified to U.S. senators and disputed the Journal’s characterization of the analysis, declaring different findings that she stated confirmed the app’s constructive impression on teenagers.

Haugen was a product supervisor at Fb for greater than two years, based on her LinkedIn profile. She additionally labored as a product supervisor at Google (NASDAQ:), Pinterest (NYSE:) and Yelp (NYSE:).

Haugen stated she’d seen issues at different social media firms, however “it was considerably worse at Fb than something I would seen earlier than.”