Facebook: whistleblower Frances Haugen creates an NGO to make social networks healthier

She continues on her way.

Frances Haugen, the engineer and ex-Facebook employee who leaked embarrassing internal documents for the social media giant last year, announced on Thursday the launch of an organization to clean up social networks.

Entitled “Beyond the Screen”, this NGO “will focus on concrete solutions to help users regain control of their experience on social networks”, declared in a press release the whistleblower.

According to the press release, the organization will create an open source database to document the legal and ethical breaches of major platforms and identify solutions.

Its objective is to give users “tangible solutions” to help them take control of their use of the platforms.

"Social media can allow us to perform at our best, and that's what Beyond the Screen will work towards," she added.

Charges dismissed by Facebook

Beyond the Screen is funded by Project Liberty, an initiative of American entrepreneur and Olympique de Marseille owner Frank McCourt, and independent organization Common Sense Media.

Frances Haugen made a name for herself a year ago by leaking more than 20,000 pages of internal Facebook documents, and hammering before various parliaments that the social network put profits before the safety of its users.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, denies these accusations.

"We are seeing a coordinated effort to selectively use internal documents to paint a false picture of our business," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the company's quarterly earnings presentation in October 2021.