In one week of October 2021, a former Facebook product manager named Frances Haugen revealed herself as the source of the Facebook Files, every Facebook app went dark for about six hours, and she told the United States Senate that the company put its profits before people's safety. Mark Zuckerberg answered that her central claim was simply not true, and three weeks later he renamed the company Meta. This episode follows the whole story: the Civic Integrity team, the tens of thousands of copied pages, XCheck, the teen research, the outage, the hearing, Facebook's replies, the Facebook Papers and the new name.
Founder Stories tells the story of one founder per episode, told plainly and in order.
