Facebook‘s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded on Tuesday to the testimony given by a Facebook whistleblower in front of the United States Senate. 

Frances Haugen, who for the first time was interviewed as an unmasked whistleblower on Sunday, pointed fingers at Zuckerberg, who at the time of the interview posted a video that showed him sailing with his wife, Priscilla Chan.

“Now that today’s testimony is over, I wanted to reflect on the public debate we’re in. I’m sure many of you have found the recent coverage hard to read because it just doesn’t reflect the company we know. We care deeply about issues like safety, well-being, and mental health. It’s difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives,” Zuckerberg said in a long Facebook post.

“Many of the claims don’t make any sense. If we wanted to ignore research, why would we create an industry-leading research program to understand these important issues in the first place?” he added.

“At the heart of these accusations is this idea that we prioritize profit over safety and well-being. That’s just not true,” the creator of Facebook continued. 

“We introduced the Meaningful Social Interactions change to News Feed. This change showed fewer viral videos and more content from friends and family — which we did knowing it would mean people spent less time on Facebook, but that research suggested it was the right thing for people’s well-being. Is that something a company focused on profits over people would do?” he said. 

Haugen, in the United States Senate testimony on Tuesday, said Facebook knows that vulnerable people are harmed by its systems.

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She said, “They are aware of the side effects of the choices they have made around amplification”, according to reports from the Associated Press.