Spot on or unfair? Facebook employees split on whistleblower Frances Haugen’s critique

Inside the notoriously insular company, employees' perceptions of Haugen appear to be divided

When former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen testified before the Senate last Tuesday, she painted an unsightly picture of the social networking company.

As a member of the company's civic misinformation team for almost two years until her departure in May, Haugen shared insights the company had previously hidden - from Facebook's willingness to propagate hateful content on its platforms to keep users engaged to research proving Instagram's detrimental effects on teen girls' mental health - and leaked thousands of pages of internal documents backing up her claims.