Whistleblower: Facebook 'chooses profit over safety' of its users

A whistleblower who leaked a selection of internal documents from Facebook has revealed her identity at the same time as criticizing the social network's track record, claiming "Facebook over and over again, has shown it chooses profit over safety."

A cache of documents from within Facebook were leaked to the Wall Street Journal by a whistleblower, prompting an exhaustive probe into the social network. Following the publishing of initial investigatory efforts into the documents, the whistleblower has come forward in an interview, explaining more about the tech giant's workings, and why she chose to release the data.That data release led to a series of reports, including one that revealed Facebook allegedly knew that Instagram was bad for the wellbeing of teenagers. That report led to a hearing with the Senate Commerce Committee's consumer protection subcommittee on mental health in teenagers.

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