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Frances Haugen: ‘We are worse off today than when I leaked the Facebook documents’
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this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
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I would never be a whistleblower, because we've all seen what happens: The whistleblowers are imprisoned or exiled and the vast majority of the population simply doesn't care, and we continue barreling down the slide of oppression.
The message is clear: society wants you to insider trade. Just go to a non-extradition country before you leak it.
It only works if the vast of the majority cares.
But for some bizarre, unexplained, unreasonable and arbitrary reason - the majority doesn't.
Yet, day after day, hour after hour, they're complaining, complaining and complaining about the mountain of problems with Facebook and social media. People, make up your fucking mind already. Do you want to continue to be fucked with for more years by the very things that have already been fucking with you for the past two decades? Or do you actually want someone to take the bullet FOR YOU and TRY to do something about it?
Because this kind of sacrifice only works - if you fucking gave a damn. The more times you don't give a damn, the more this shit continues running as is.
They complain about the problems they are complicit in creating. It's like Boomers complaining about the homeless and younger generations ruining home ownership despite intentionally jacking up home prices to enrich themselves. Lots of selfish bastards here in the US.
Don’t be a whistleblower. Just exfil the data and drop it somewhere.
Most of the time that data can be traced back to you and/or the recipient is going to want some sort of way to verify that the info is legit.
I think in the case of Chelsea Manning it was anonymous but they traced it back to her through the file metadata.
Install local ai on your hardware. Feed your data to it. Ask it what metadata can be extracted to identify chain of custody. Strip it off, ask it the same. Keep iterating until it cannot pull any useful meta.
Then leak it from a fresh system using a connection that is not directly connected to you.
Easier said than done, but still possible. There are actual crimes committed that people get away with all the time, they just never end up in the news. Unsolvable crime is still a thing, so untraceable leaks can be too.
I absolutely would 100% never trust my personal safety to a slop generator, thank you.
If whistleblowing actually worked, I might be willing to accept some personal consequences as a whistleblower.
But like you said, it doesn't work, so if you want to do something for the greater good, you're going to end up doing something more anonymously and possibly more illegally.