{"id":51718,"date":"2021-10-25T15:01:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51718"},"modified":"2025-09-03T01:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:17:29","slug":"facebook-whistleblower-recounts-timely-cryptocurrency-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/facebook-whistleblower-recounts-timely-cryptocurrency-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook whistleblower recounts timely cryptocurrency purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/24\/business\/media\/facebook-leak-frances-haugen.html?referringSource=articleShare\">interview<\/a> with The New York Times, said that investments in cryptocurrency allow her not to worry about her financial position.<\/p>\n<p>The former product manager at the company <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/whistleblower-facebook-uses-algorithms-to-inflame-hatred-for-profit\">revealed how Facebook&#8217;s algorithms work<\/a>. According to Haugen, they fuel the spread of misinformation and hate speech that drive user engagement and boost the profits of the social-media company&#8217;s parent corporation.<\/p>\n<p>Until May 2021 Haugen worked in Facebook&#8217;s civil misinformation group. Before leaving, she secretly copied tens of thousands of pages of internal company research, which she handed to journalists, members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Consumer Protection and the Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Based on these documents, The Wall Street Journal published a series of articles alleging that the company turned a blind eye to the spread of content that harms children and adolescents.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about her current financial position, the informant living in Puerto Rico said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIn the foreseeable future I\u2019m fine because I invested in cryptocurrencies in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Haugen did not disclose the value or amount of the digital assets she owns. She added that she also received financial assistance from non-profit organizations funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. According to her, the funds were used solely for travel-related expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The informant added that relocating to Puerto Rico helped her join a \u201ccrypto friends\u201d who benefit from tax advantages.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported, one of the most well-known informants, a former employee of the <span data-descr=\"National Security Agency\" class=\"old_tooltip\">\u0410\u041d\u0411<\/span> and the <span data-descr=\"Central Intelligence Agency\" class=\"old_tooltip\">\u0426\u0420\u0423<\/span>, Edward Snowden, said that he first thought about buying Bitcoin in March 2020 \u2014 at the height of the asset&#8217;s price drop.<\/p>\n<p>In December <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/edward-snowden-recalls-bitcoin-buying-forecast-as-price-falls-in-march\">he confirmed the accuracy of his forecast<\/a> \u2014 the price of digital gold rose from $5,000 to $19 900 during that period.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told The New York Times in an interview that investments in cryptocurrency allow her not to worry about her financial position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,1269,611,465],"class_list":["post-51718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-censorship","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-facebook","tag-social-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"9","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51720,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51718\/revisions\/51720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}