How Whistleblowers Changed Our Understanding of Meta

Before Frances Haugen became a global public figure for leaking a trove of internal documents on Facebook, she carefully avoided alerting Facebook’s security to her plans. The details on how—fascinating to journalists and probably alarming to any CEO—suggest Haugen knew she was about to launch a grenade into the strenuously cultivated public image of the company now called Meta Platforms.

“To thwart potential surveillance to the greatest degree possible, I had paid cash for a cheap Samsung phone and …

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