Frances Haugen

Engineer

Birthplace Iowa City, IA

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About

Data engineer and product manager who is recognized for having disclosed Facebook's internal documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and The Wall Street Journal in 2021. She has more than 80,000 followers on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Before Fame

She graduated from Iowa City West High School in 2002. 

Trivia

She was a student at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering prior to attending Harvard University's business school. She published her memoir The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook in 2023.

Family Life

Her father was a doctor and her mom worked in academia.

Associated With

She was a whistleblower against Mark Zuckerberg and internal practices at Facebook.