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Facebook whistleblower who pushed for more censorship has ties to Democrat operatives
Alpha News ^ | October 7, 2021 | Ailan Evans

Posted on 10/07/2021 3:56:13 PM PDT by george76

Haugen is a regular donor to Democrats..

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who pushed for more censorship of social media misinformation in Senate testimony Tuesday, is linked to several Democrat operatives.

Haugen is being advised on public relations and strategic communications by Bill Burton, a former Obama administration official and founder of Democrat-linked consulting firm Bryson Gillette and political action committee Priorities USA Action, The Washington Free Beacon reported Monday. Burton is also listed as a public affairs representative for the non-profit Center for Humane Technology, which has criticized Facebook and other social media platforms for permitting misinformation and harmful content.

Haugen is represented in her U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission complaints by John Tye, founder of Washington legal group Whistleblower Aid. Tye, himself a whistleblower, previously worked for the State Department during the Obama administration.

Whistleblower Aid was co-founded by Mark Zaid, an attorney who represented Alexander Vindman, the national security official who alleged former President Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on a phone call.

Filings with the Federal Election Commission show that Haugen is a regular donor to Democrats, contributing to several campaigns including those of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Haugen, who leaked internal documents that The Wall Street Journal published last month, was employed at Facebook as a product manager on the Civic Misinformation team, where she oversaw policies addressing misinformation and hateful content. Haugen worked specifically on “misinformation” in the lead-up to and immediate aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, according to her testimony.

In October 2020, one month before the election, Facebook censored a New York Post story alleging that Hunter Biden and President Joe Biden met with an executive of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, in 2015.

The documents Haugen leaked showed that Facebook’s engagement algorithms contributed to the spread of incendiary content as well as “misinformation” related to the COVID-19 vaccines. In her testimony, Haugen called for reform of Facebook’s algorithms, a dedicated regulatory agency overseeing content decisions and the implementation of “soft interventions” that would limit the spread of information deemed harmful.

“Facebook knows that content that elicits a strong reaction from you is more likely to get likes, comments, and reshares,” Haugen said in her testimony Tuesday. “They also know it’s dangerous.”

Haugen, who said she joined Facebook to make it “less toxic,” previously worked at Yelp, where she pushed for more women to work in the technology industry in a lecture titled “The Intersection of Product Management and Gender.”


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KEYWORDS: bigtech; censorship; corruption; coup; democrats; elections; facebook; franceshaugen; haugen; hunter; whistleblower

1 posted on 10/07/2021 3:56:13 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

How is this person a “whistleblower”???

She wants MORE of the stuff they were doing against Trump and the GOP.

She was “reporting” that they STOPPED (which I don’t think they did)


2 posted on 10/07/2021 4:00:01 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: george76

Smoke and mirrors.


3 posted on 10/07/2021 4:00:45 PM PDT by patriot torch
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To: george76

Yes, definetely appears her problem was lack of censorship.


4 posted on 10/07/2021 4:01:23 PM PDT by Islasorna
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To: george76

You don’t say.


5 posted on 10/07/2021 4:01:35 PM PDT by SE Mom
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To: george76

thats a good looking nazi


6 posted on 10/07/2021 4:01:59 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: george76

Her cover was blown very quickly.


7 posted on 10/07/2021 4:03:16 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: george76

Socked. SHOCKED.


8 posted on 10/07/2021 4:03:26 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Mr. K

A previous FR thread today says that her Facebook group actively suppressed information on Hunter Biden’s laptop.


9 posted on 10/07/2021 4:11:35 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: george76

If she was an actual whistle blower for facebook, they’d destroy her and try to epstein her. Instead they gave her attention and a twitter account with a blue check mark.


10 posted on 10/07/2021 4:21:41 PM PDT by Trillian
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11 posted on 10/07/2021 4:53:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Mr. K
Whistleblower my arse.

She was also on the team that censored the Hunter Biden laptop story; which we all know now to be true.

12 posted on 10/07/2021 4:55:10 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: joshua c

She appears to have a bit of gravitas.

13 posted on 10/07/2021 5:06:30 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: george76

The Left thinks they’re Tom Sawyer and we’re useful idiots.


14 posted on 10/07/2021 5:07:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: george76

Frances Haugen was chosen for this assignment because Christine Blasey Ford wasn’t available.


15 posted on 10/07/2021 5:15:49 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: george76

Apparently Congressman Nunes was right when he said this FB whistleblower hearing is nothing more than a diversion away from FB’s policy of censoring conservative speech.


16 posted on 10/07/2021 5:24:53 PM PDT by drypowder
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