‘We need 10,000 eyes looking at how Facebook works’
On Web Summit’s opening night, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said the company must be held accountable—and that Mark Zuckerberg should step down.
On Monday evening at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, a crowd of pre-pandemic proportions packed the Altice Arena for the event’s opening session. The night’s headline speaker wasn’t some tech executive. Instead, ex-Facebook employee turned whistleblower Frances Haugen talked about her decision to release thousands of documents from her former employer. The revelations in those documents have led to a flurry of investigative reports into Facebook’s own research into its impact on society, as well as increased calls for legislative intervention to minimize harmful effects. She spoke alongside Libby Liu, the CEO of Whistleblower Aid, the nonprofit Washington DC legal organization that’s representing her.