‘Moral bankruptcy’: whistleblower offers scathing assessment of Facebook

Frances Haugen's animated remarks were a striking contrast to Mark Zuckerberg's robotic testimony before Congress

It might, as one senator put it, be remembered as the big tobacco jaw-dropping moment of truth".

The truth-teller was former Facebook data scientist Frances Haugen, appearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to testify that the online platform knowingly harms children, just as cigarette makers did before they were brought to heel.