Frances Hogan, a former Facebook employee and whistleblower, has announced that she’s looking to create a nonprofit organization focused primarily on accounting for companies like Meta.
The organization, called “Beyond the Screen”, plans to focus on 3 main goals: educating lawyers likely to encounter social media companies, motivating investors to consider the extent of the tech company’s social responsibility before giving it money, and giving regulators and researchers An inside look at how the platforms work, according to the American newspaper, Politico.
Frances Hogan is currently working with two other people on the project for the new organization, and is looking to raise about $5 million in funding to make it a reality.
The Politico report said Frances Hogan has already received at least some funding from some of the unnamed backers.
Beyond the Screen will take the form of a fake social network that can be used to demonstrate and test how platforms and their algorithms work under the hood, and its main idea is that a simulated platform can help people better understand how companies do things, without having to get involved The companies actually do, as Hogan explained.
Frances Hogan rose to fame last year for releasing a set of internal documents and data from Facebook, as well as testifying before lawmakers in the US Congress about the behavior of the famous social network.