00:00We are unquestionably living in the moment of social reckoning.
00:02My name is Frances Haugen. I used to work for Facebook.
00:09My name is Frances Haugen. I am the whistleblower who brought forward the documents that showed Facebook knew they were
00:15harming the well-being of kids.
00:16Anxiety, depression of teenage girls got worse as a result of time spent on the platform.
00:20And those documents were critical for them to be able to bring the lawsuits that are now starting to play
00:25out against the company.
00:25I have 21,323 documents.
00:30Did you know this was happening?
00:31Meta could have reduced harm to kids, but because it traded off with 1% less usage on the platform,
00:37they didn't do it.
00:39The downside.
00:39A 1% reduction in engagement.
00:41You know what 1% is at scale? That's 30 million people who just stopped scrolling.
00:46This movie is important. I wanted to have shown the toxicity of the feed has real consequences.
00:51We're trying to address hate speech and we're going to amplify and turbocharge it.
00:56And I really believe that information can change the course of the world.
00:59Use my name. I'm on the record.
