“It’s a matter of time before Facebook suffers the consequences of what it did to children”, says whistleblower Frances Haugen

Almost everyone already knows what Frances Haugen was doing in the summers of 2020 and 2021, but with the publication of “The truth of Facebook”, which arrives in Portugal through Casa das Letras, the famous whistleblower outlines an overview that helps you understand how Facebook conquered the world and became a central part of the political debate.

In the book, Frances Haugen describes how she went through Google, Yelp and Pnterest – until she overcame some reluctance and applied for a job that almost no one wanted on Facebook. It was at that moment that she came across the lack of resources, exhaustion, betrayals, last-minute political crises, traces of amateurism in preparing elections and situations of ethnic violence or psychological damage to children and adolescents that led her to file a complaint. , with multiple photos of internal files, with the Stock Exchange supervisors.

US President Joe Biden would mention her for the complaint in an official ceremony. In an interview with Expresso, Frances Haugen says that it is too early to let our guard down. “What we have seen since then should make us very worried about the elections coming up this year.”