In Conversation with Frances Haugen

Can we curate our online world to bring out the best in humanity? How does one harness the courage to take on a tech giant and stand up for what is right?

Small Giants is thrilled to welcome Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen in conversation with Berry Liberman at the Whitehouse. Globally renowned for leaking thousands of pages of Facebook's (now Meta) internal documents, Frances is now a leading advocate for accountability and transparency in social media.

Frances and Berry, in dialogue with our community, will explore these challenging questions.

Program:

5:30pm Welcome
6:15pm Frances & Berry in Conversation
7:30pm Event concludes

Beverages and light snacks provided

You can hear more of Frances' inspiring story on the Dumbo Feather podcast 

About Frances Haugen 

In 2019, Frances Haugen was recruited to Facebook as lead product manager on the Civic Misinformation team. She was hired to deal with issues related to democracy and misinformation, and she later worked on counter-espionage with the social media giant.  

During her time at Facebook, Frances became increasingly alarmed by the choices the company made to prioritise their own profit over public safety – ultimately risking individual users’ lives in the process. As a last resort, and at great personal cost, Frances made the courageous decision to expose the company for its unethical business practices. Initial reporting was released by The Wall Street Journal in what became known as The Facebook Files.  

Since going public, Frances has testified in front of US Congress, UK ad EU Parliaments, and the French Senate and National Assembly. She has engaged with lawmakers internationally on how to best address the negative externalities of social media platforms.  

About Berry Liberman

Berry Liberman along with her husband Danny founded Small Giants. Berry is a pioneering impact investor, business woman, philanthropist, storyteller and filmmaker.

With one of the most recognisable family names in Australian business circles, Berry is using her financial capital to make a positive impact in the world. She does this in service to future generations.

Berry and Danny have co-founded and seeded many next economy businesses in several sectors including the built environment, venture capital, regenerative agriculture, financial services, nature-based climate solutions and energy systems. Their impact funds, Impact Investment Group and Sentient Impact Group have moved fortunes towards impact as pioneers and leaders in this space.

Berry believes in the power of storytelling to ‘heal us and give us a vision of a way forward’ and, for over a decade, has interviewed hundreds of the world’s deepest thinkers, philosophers, business leaders and change-makers. Her work has been recognised through several awards including B Lab’s Hal Taussig Award and the United Nations’ Shared Values Award.