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by whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeff Horwitz
Jeff Horwitz was the Wall Street Journal reporter on the story, not a co-whistleblower behind the Facebook leak.
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This phrase incorrectly groups Jeff Horwitz with Frances Haugen as if both were responsible for the leak.
Contemporaneous reporting on the 2021 Facebook documents identifies Haugen as the whistleblower/leaker and Horwitz as the journalist who received and reported on the material. TIME reported that Haugen "leaked a massive trove of Facebook's internal documents and research to the Wall Street Journal" and that "Jeff Horwitz, the Journal tech reporter behind the Facebook Files stories" confirmed her identity. An NPR transcript similarly introduced Horwitz as "the reporter Frances Haugen first leaked the documents to."
Sony's official synopsis for the film matches that division of roles: it says Frances Haugen enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter. So the article's wording is inaccurate because Horwitz was not a whistleblower behind the leak; he was the reporter covering it.
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- The Facebook Whistleblower Revealed Herself on 60 Minutes. Here's What You Need to Know
By April 2021 she resigned, and leaked a massive trove of Facebook's internal documents and research to the Wall Street Journal... Jeff Horwitz, the Journal tech reporter behind the Facebook Files stories, also confirmed Haugen's identity after she revealed herself on the show.
- Reporters who pored over internal documents discuss what's next for Facebook | New Hampshire Public Radio
We also have The Wall Street Journal's Jeff Horwitz. He's the reporter Frances Haugen first leaked the documents to.
- The Social Reckoning Movie | Official Website | Sony Pictures
The film is inspired by the true story of how Frances Haugen (Madison), a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz (White), a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network's most guarded secrets.