Frances Haugen Biography

Frances Haugen is a former Facebook employee who is recently being called as a whistleblower for providing private research documents to the “Wall Street Journal “for its Facebook file project. Frances Haugen used to work as a product manager at Facebook until May 2021. She has worked for numerous tech and non-tech or social media companies during her 15 years of career. Frances disclosed her identity during an interview with 60 minutes CBS on Sunday, 3rd October 2021. She is one of the worst nightmares for Mrk Zuckerberg as she made some serious allegations against tech giants.

Early Life

She was born either in 1983 or 84 as her age is 37 years at the moment and brought up in Iowa City with her family. Both of her parents are professors thus, she developed a strong sense of democracy by attending Iowa Caucuses with them. According to her LinkedIn page, she went to Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham from where she attained her graduation degree with four years of certification in 2006. Later, she went to Olin College and acquired a degree in MBA in everyday administration in 2011. Later, she went to Harvard University.

Frances Haugen Career

Frances Haugen has worked for various companies notably in computerized firms. She has remained a former employee at companies like Pinterest and Google. During her 15 years of professional life, she has worked with many innovative and media outlets, and most of late she has worked with Facebook until May 2021. According to what she has described herself on her social media page, she was appointed at Facebook in 2019 as the Lead Product Manager with Civic Disinformation Group. Her niche was much more related to counter-surveillance concerns and government rules and regulations.

Controversy

The 37-year-old Haugen wrote on her website that she was recruited to Facebook as lead product manager which had a lot of things to deal with democracy, misinformation, and counter-espionage. During her time with Facebook, she became increasingly alarmed about the choices of the company where she noticed that the company tried to prioritize profits over public safety. She further added that the company rather chose to put the life of people at risk. And Frances has collected the courage to blow the whistle at Facebook.

With her interview with 60 minutes, she revealed that she had seen at Facebook over and over again that there were many conflicts of interest between what makes good for the public and what else is good for Facebook. And Facebook over and over again chose to prioritize its profit like making money for itself. The Wall Street Journal says the Facebook Files project, Facebook Inc. knows in actuality that it is riddled with flaws that are causing harm and often in ways it understands the matter fully. This is the central finding and is based on the internal Facebook documents including the research reports and online employee discussion.

60 Minutes Interview

Haugen in her 60-minute interview said on 3rd October 2021 that she had a bunch of networks and subsequently it came out to be worse with Facebook than anything she had seen in her life. she said that imagine you know what was all going into Facebook and you also know that no one on the outside knows about it. She knew that what her future would look like and even if she continued to stay on Facebook, a person had to tackle it all while being with the ground themselves.

According to the CBS news channel, Haugen secretly copied tens of thousands of pages in her internal research. She further said that evidence has shown that the company was lying to the public that it was taking actions against hate, violence, and misinformation. She said about Facebook that the version we are living with Facebook is tearing society apart and is causing ethnic violence around the world. It has chosen profit over safety. It is paying for its profit over the profit of people. With all of these words, she aspires that it would create a big impact on the world and will motivate the regulations to get into place.

Frances Haugen Biography
Real Name	Frances Haugen
Birth Date	1983-84
Age (as of 2021)	37 Years
Birth Place	Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Residence	San Fransico, California, USA
Nationality	American
Profession	Data Scientist & Product Manager
Religion	Christianity
Sun sign	–
Physical Statistics
Height	in feet inches – 5’ 6” – in Centimeters – 168 cm
Weight	in Kilograms – 64 kg  –  in Pounds –  141 lbs
Hair Color	Blonde
Eye Color	Gray
Body Type	Slim
Family
Father	–
Mother	–
Sister	–
Brother	–
Qualification/Education
School	–
College	Olin College, Harvard Business School
Relationship Status
Marital Status	Single
Affair	No
Who is her husband/boyfriend?	Not Known

Personal Life

As of 2021, Frances Haugen’s relationship is quite complicated because some portals said she is a married woman but no such information is available on reliable sources. Thus, she seems to be single and ain’t connected with anyone romantically in the present or the past publicly. Moreover, we do not owe any information related to her parents, love life, and boyfriends in the past. We will soon update the information here in this column.

Frances Haugen Net Worth

Haugen seems to be a fair and a girl with rectitude who is enough eligible to attain a good life for herself. She has remained a former Facebook employee who was there Facebook for over three years of her professional life. Her current asset with net worth is estimated to be around $1 million to $5 million. She has recorded eight grievances against Facebook and will affirm before congress on 5th October 2021.

Trivia

• Before working for Facebook, Frances has worked with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley such as Google, Pinterest, and Yelp.
• She joined FB from a gig and after joining she received about $200K annual salary.
• Her mother is a priest and it was her who encouraged Frances to go public with all evidence she had against FB.
• Back from childhood, she remained quite fearless as when she was 8 years old, she wrote a letter to a US representative in order to oppose the road widening project.