Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is singing another tune, now she want Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to step down and allow change rather than devoting resources to a rebrand. Haugen made a her first public address since she leaked a trove of damaging documents about Facebook’s inner workings.
Speaking at the tech and web summit in Lisbon, Portugal, she said “I think it is unlikely the company will change if Mark Zuckerberg remains the CEO.”
Haugen told a packed arena on Monday at the opening night of the Web Summit, a tech fest drawing dozens of thousands to the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, reported Reuters.
The former Facebook product manager while replying some of the questions at the conference, she said “Maybe it’s a chance for someone else to take the reins… Facebook would be stronger with someone who was willing to focus on safety.”
“Over and over Facebook chooses expansion and new areas instead of sticking the landing on what they’ve already done,” Haugen told an animated crowd which frequently burst into applause as she spoke.
“A key problem is that the foundation of the platform’s security is based on monitoring content language by language, which does not scale to all the countries where Facebook operates,” Haugen noted.
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