logo
episode-header-image
Jul 2023
22m 58s

Frances Haugen’s lessons as a Facebook w...

Financial Times
About this episode

Frances Haugen was just another Silicon Valley tech worker until she decided to speak up about what was happening inside Facebook. Now she’s written a book about her experience titled The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook. Frances talks to Michela about what she’s learned. 


Clips from CBS, CNBC 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

For further reading:

Who is Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen?

Facebook after the whistleblower: can Zuckerberg reboot the social network?

The FT’s 25 most influential women of 2021 

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 

On Twitter, follow Michela Tindera (@mtindera07)


Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Up next
Oct 8
Elon Musk and the end of a telecom tycoon’s dream
In recent weeks, satellite business EchoStar has clinched multibillion-dollar deals with SpaceX and AT&T. It may sound like boom times for founder Charlie Ergen, but these deals illustrate something different: the abandoning of an ambitious, decades-long quest to build his own mo ... Show More
23m 40s
Oct 6
Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Mission to Mars
US President Donald Trump has pledged to “plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars”, China could send its first crewed mission to Mars within a decade, and Elon Musk wants people to actually settle on Mars, transforming the human race into an interplanetary species. In a ne ... Show More
1m 40s
Oct 1
The unsustainable boom in India’s Silicon Valley
India’s tech hub Bangalore has experienced huge growth of companies and employees in the past two decades. But the city’s infrastructure is not keeping up with such rapid growth. With the tech sector contributing more than $300bn to the nation’s economy, what happens to the count ... Show More
22m 45s
Recommended Episodes
Oct 2021
A Conversation with Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen
We are now in social media's Big Tobacco moment. And that’s largely thanks to the courage of one woman: Frances Haugen.Frances is a specialist in algorithmic product management. She worked at Google, Pinterest, and Yelp before joining Facebook — first as a Product Manager on Civi ... Show More
55m 24s
Oct 2021
How to be a whistleblower with Sophie Zhang
Frances Haugen isn’t the only woman to blow the whistle on Facebook. Meet Sophie Zhang, a former Facebook data scientist who blew the whistle on Facebook back in 2020.   Read Sophie’s handbook for whistleblowers in the Guardian. How to blow the whistle on Facebook – from someone ... Show More
38m 28s
Oct 2021
The Facebook Whistle-Blower Testifies
The Senate testimony of Frances Haugen on Tuesday was an eagerly awaited event.Last month, Ms. Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, leaked internal company documents to The Wall Street Journal that exposed the social media giant’s inner workings.How will Ms. Haugen’s insigh ... Show More
28m 32s
Sep 2023
Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen On The ‘Chaos Era’ Of Social Media & The Future of Public Discourse
Determined to bring transparency and accountability to Big Tech, in 2021 Frances Haugen risked everything to blow the whistle on Facebook. She copied tens of thousands of pages of documents that revealed that the social media giant had accidentally changed its algorithm to reward ... Show More
2h 38m
Nov 2021
Facebook’s whistleblower goes to Europe
Toshiba has ruled out pursuing a deal to take the whole company private and is set to reveal a plan to split the business in three, and Facebook’s whistleblower is calling on the UK and EU to do more to control online harm. Plus, the FT’s markets editor, Katie Martin, will dive i ... Show More
9m 32s
Feb 2024
Our memories, their data - the Facebook story 20 years on
It’s 20 years since Facebook was brought into the world by a group of Harvard University roommates. In the years since, millions of us have shared our photos, our memories, our lives…and our data.In the early days Facebook’s mantra was ‘move fast and break things’. By last week, ... Show More
27m 7s
Oct 2021
'Fixing' Facebook's algorithm
The social media giant's algorithm has been accused of amplifying divisive content and disinformation. Could regulating it make Facebook a kinder platform? Ed Butler speaks to the BBC's Silicon Valley correspondent James Clayton about the latest revelations from Facebook whistleb ... Show More
18m 4s