Our team chose Simo for its “Ones to Watch” list. The story accompanies Fortune’s 2021 ranking of the Most Powerful Women in business, out today. If you’re in the market for more news about ex-Facebook product managers, my colleague Maria Aspan has an excellent profile of Fidji Simo, who left her post as head of Facebook’s flagship app in July to become chief executive of Instacart, the grocery-deliverer. Facebook is attempting to counter the barrage of bad press by releasing company-approved, annotated versions of the leaked documents and by trotting out execs, such as global safety director Antigone Davis and global affairs head Nick Clegg, to defend its behavior before Congress and news shows.Īs Facebook contends with its black outs and black eyes, it’s also suffering from a string of painful departures. Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet are all contending with critics, leakers, and internal labor organizers of their own. Haugen is the latest member of Big Tech’s rank and file to turn on Silicon Valley’s bosses. (Haugen has applied for whistleblower protections from the Securities and Exchange Commission.) The company “is paying for its profits with our safety,” she added, while calling for world governments to pass stricter regulations aimed at the media giant. “Facebook has demonstrated they cannot act independently,” Haugen told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley. Frances Haugen, a former product manager who joined Facebook in 2019 after stints at Google, Pinterest, and Yelp, explained her rationale for copying and leaking thousands of pages of internal Facebook documents: To hold the company accountable for failing to address its ill societal effects, like sowing discord, inflaming violence, causing mental anguish. The massive-and ironically timed-outage comes a day after a Facebook whistleblower outed herself to the public in an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes news show. (You’re out of the limelight, at least temporarily, Ozy Media.) The blackout appears to be a technical issue.
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ET, Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Oculus, and even the company’s internal systems, such as email and its corporate office software Workplace, went dark. Still reeling from a parade of leaks published by the Wall Street Journal that covered everything from the company’s ham-fisted handling of hate speech and teen health to drug cartels and celeb influencers, Facebook got knocked offline Monday morning.