Frances Haugen: ‘I never wanted to be a whistleblower. But lives were in danger’

The woman whose revelations have rocked Facebook tells how spending time with her mother, a priest, motivated her to speak out

This was not Frances Haugen’s plan A. The Facebook whistleblower says she does not like being the centre of attention, but what she saw while working at Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire compelled her into action – and made her famous.

“When I look at what I did, this was not my plan A. It wasn’t my plan B, it wasn’t my plan C. It was like my plan J or something,” she laughs. “No one sat me down and said ‘what I want you to do is whistleblow’.”

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