Engineer and ex-Facebook employee Frances Haugen, who leaked embarrassing internal documents for the social media giant last year, has announced the launch of an organization to clean up social media.
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.
Propose “tangible solutions” to users
Its goal 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.
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.
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.
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