Frances Haugen
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Sep 17, 2026
Tristan HarrisHOST
And the report finally came out of just how extensive that hack was and how complicated and, and how sophisticated this swarm became.
Tristan HarrisHOST
And so I thought I would just reflect on some of these things for you because it's really, speaking personally and for those who follow this podcast for a long time and for many years, this moment feels to me like when Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, came out.
Tristan HarrisHOST
It suddenly feels like there's possibility around actually setting some guardrails in AI.
Tristan HarrisHOST
I have not felt in the three years we've been working on this, is you always feel like you're pushing a boulder completely uphill.
Jonathan HaidtGUEST
The attorneys can request documents.
Jonathan HaidtGUEST
Also, there are whistleblowers like Frances Haugen, who brought out thousands of screenshots of internal documents.
Jonathan HaidtGUEST
And so here, I'll just read a couple.
Jonathan HaidtGUEST
So here's a discussion among two researchers at Instagram.
Scott BrickNARRATOR
In the script of The Social Reckoning, potential spoilers ahead, Sorkin again bookends the film with an invented female character.
Scott BrickNARRATOR
In reality, the whistleblower behind Sorkin's source material, Frances Haugen, had a friend who was radicalized by conspiracy theories on online forums, which motivated Haugen to take a role policing misinformation on social media, which led her to a job at Facebook.
Scott BrickNARRATOR
In the film, however, the friend is a progressive woman radicalized by Facebook, an injustice which Haugen, already employed there, must bring to light.
Scott BrickNARRATOR
In the opening scene, the friend is drunk on a highway and hurls racist insults at two police officers who pull over to check on her, which she records on her phone for clicks.
Isaac PoundHOST
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Ed ZitronGUEST
You don't run an exclu- If you was concerned about something, you don't go, "Oh, I better do a concerted media strategy around this." They're ripping off Frances Haugen, who was the woman who leaked all the stuff about Facebook, a good thing.
Ed ZitronGUEST
But you'll notice that Frances Haugen leaked stuff.
Ed ZitronGUEST
All of these p- these ponces who come out of these places and they're like, "I'm so scared," they don't leak anything.
Ed ZitronGUEST
They don't tell us anything.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A Facebook whistleblower has told US lawmakers that she believes Facebook's products harm children, stoke division, and weaken democracy.
Karen DuffinCORRESPONDENT
Her name was Frances Haugen.
Karen DuffinCORRESPONDENT
When she was working at Facebook, she focused on misinformation and political violence, and she'd seen firsthand what happened when problems in those areas went unaddressed, which made her wonder what else was Facebook seeing and not fixing.
Karen DuffinCORRESPONDENT
So she started digging, and before she left the company, you may remember hearing about this, she copied more than 20,000 pages of internal documents, gave them to the Wall Street Journal, and then made them public.
12 MINS LATER
Karen DuffinCORRESPONDENT
What the settlement doesn't buy is immunity from thousands of other individual suits filed by teenagers, their families, and a roster of school districts.
Karen DuffinCORRESPONDENT
The next one of those trials is supposed to start in LA County in October.
Karen DuffinCORRESPONDENT
And remember Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower who walked out with thousands of pages of internal documents? She once tried to calculate what Meta could face if they lost all of those other lawsuits.
Karen DuffinCORRESPONDENT
And her estimate? It wasn't twelve billion.
Vanessa GrigoriadisHOST
It was sort of fascinating because this is part of what the movie about Mark Zuckerberg and Meta is also about.
Vanessa GrigoriadisHOST
It's basically based on a former employee of Facebook's life, Frances Haugen, who worked there and blew the whistle on them back in 2021.
Vanessa GrigoriadisHOST
Here are some characters talking about her in the film.
Jeremy StrongSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
She's gonna get sued into small pieces.
Jeremy StrongSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Harm, I promise you, is imminent.
speaker_0ADVERTISER
Enough!
Vanessa GrigoriadisHOST
Now, Meta's approach during the time that Frances Haugen was there and for years afterwards was basically it's parents' job to protect their kids.
Vanessa GrigoriadisHOST
These platforms are giving parents controls.
Danny FortsonHOST
So that's coming out at Christmas.
Danny FortsonHOST
And then before that, The Social Reckoning is coming out, which is really about Frances Haugen and the whistleblowing that happened there at Meta.
Danny FortsonHOST
And, you know, it's the sequel to The Social Network, which in a way kind of set in stone for a lot of people who don't follow tech, like, who Mark Zuckerberg was, and I think that's what Artificial could do for Sam Altman.
Katie PrescottHOST
Mm.
Robby SoaveHOST
This internal reports that Facebook and Instagram had about harms to some users.
Robby SoaveHOST
There was Whistleblower, Francis Haugen.
Robby SoaveHOST
They're making a movie about it now where Jeremy Strong is playing Zuckerberg.
Robby SoaveHOST
It looks like the worst movie.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Analytica.
John CooganHOST
It's the Francis Haugen teenage girl whistleblower thing, which honestly looks a lot different in the backdrop of the addiction
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
trials.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I wonder if they were trying to get this out before the trials
Jordi HaysHOST
Analytica.
John CooganHOST
It's the Francis Haugen teenage girl whistleblower thing, which honestly looks a lot different in the backdrop of the addiction
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
trials.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I wonder if they were trying to get this out before the trials
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