Hours before the almost 7-hour Facebook outage took place, whistleblower and former Facebook employee, Frances Haugen revealed her identity and addressed that the social media giant went ahead with misinformation despite being aware of it. HIGHLIGHTS Facebook faced an outage of over 6 hours on Monday evening. This happened after whistleblower and former Facebook employee Frances Haugen, revealed her identity on air. Haugen noted that Facebook would not change its problematic algorithm as people would spend less time on the platform. Hours before Facebook’s almost 7-hour long outage, the social media platform had hit the headlines as a former employee and whistleblower had revealed her identity and gone on air to speak about everything that is wrong with the social media giant. Haugen had presented internal documents that went to Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and The Wall Street Journal. She decided to reveal her identity and noted that Facebook realized that if they