Frances Haugen, a former product manager on Facebook's civic misinformation team, revealed herself as the whistleblower behind the leaked documents.
. She also lists herself as the technical co-founder behind the dating app Hinge, saying she took its precursor, Secret Agent Cupid, to market.
Facebook has since said that the Journal's reporting cherry-picked data and that even headlines on its own internal presentations ignored potentially positive interpretations of the data, like that many users found positive impacts from engagement with their products. "When they got rid of Civic Integrity, it was the moment where I was like, 'I don't trust that they're willing to actually invest what needs to be invested to keep Facebook from being dangerous,'" Haugen told "60 Minutes."
"As soon as the election was over, they turned them back off or they changed the settings back to what they were before, to prioritize growth over safety," Haugen said. "And that really feels like a betrayal of democracy to me."
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