The Facebook Papers: A Conversation with The Atlantic's Adrienne LaFrance
Justin Hendrix / Oct 27, 2021Subscribe to the Tech Policy Press podcast via your favorite podcast service.
This week’s revelations in what has come to be known as the Facebook papers- reports based on a trove of documents brought forward by whistleblower Frances Haugen- are keeping Facebook and its senior executives at the top of news feeds around the world. In the avalanche of coverage, one particular piece stood out to me-one written by Adrienne LaFrance, executive editor of The Atlantic, and a writer and observer that I regard has having a keen insight into issues at the intersection of technology and democracy.
The piece is titled ‘HISTORY WILL NOT JUDGE US KINDLY’: Thousands of pages of internal documents offer the clearest picture yet of how Facebook endangers American democracy—and show that the company’s own employees know it. I had the opportunity to speak with her about the piece and pose additional questions about the company and its response to these leaks.
