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Silicon Valley/Facebook - She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story
MIT Technology Review ^ | July 29, 2021 | by Karen Hao

Posted on 08/03/2021 7:28:49 PM PDT by thecodont

The world first learned of Sophie Zhang in September 2020, when BuzzFeed News obtained and published highlights from an abridged version of her nearly 8,000-word exit memo from Facebook.

Before she was fired, Zhang was officially employed as a low-level data scientist at the company. But she had become consumed by a task she deemed more important: finding and taking down fake accounts and likes that were being used to sway elections globally.

Her memo revealed that she’d identified dozens of countries, including India, Mexico, Afghanistan, and South Korea, where this type of abuse was enabling politicians to mislead the public and gain power. It also revealed how little the company had done to mitigate the problem, despite Zhang’s repeated efforts to bring it to the attention of leadership.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: buzzfeedsux; elections; facebook

1 posted on 08/03/2021 7:28:49 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont
“I was terrified of somehow becoming the James Comey of 2020,”

So educated, yet so charmingly naive.

2 posted on 08/03/2021 7:35:32 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: thecodont

Stark raving mad...


3 posted on 08/03/2021 7:49:07 PM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: thecodont

He/She/ confused doesn’t say anything about how facebook works for the left.


4 posted on 08/03/2021 7:50:03 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: marktwain

Stories like this are a ruse for the brutal oppression Democrats are planning.


5 posted on 08/03/2021 7:52:44 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: marktwain
He/She/ confused doesn’t say anything about how facebook works for the left.

That's missing, true. However, I find the timing of the article very interesting, that it would say anything, anything at all about Facebook trying to influence election outcomes.

6 posted on 08/03/2021 7:52:59 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

>>she had become consumed by a task she deemed more important: finding and taking down fake accounts and likes that were being used to sway elections globally.
>>Her memo revealed that she’d identified dozens of countries, including India, Mexico, Afghanistan, and South Korea, where this type of abuse was enabling politicians to mislead the public and gain power.

Fakebook and $hitter want a monopoly on misleading the public to sway elections


7 posted on 08/03/2021 8:32:06 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: thecodont

“She.”

I couldn’t continue after the article went on about massive depression and anxiety; that’s the stuff which leads to transgenderism. He was under massive academic pressure as a kid, longed to be someone else, and a book led him to think it was a good idea to become a girl.

Nope. None of that is relevant to the job at Facebook or what he was invested in while working there. Gratuitous social asshattery turns me off.


8 posted on 08/03/2021 10:02:51 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: thecodont

The clown that decides on which articles go in the Technology Review is a flaming leftist. He’d never allow anything that doesn’t support whatever is the current narrative.


9 posted on 08/03/2021 10:42:20 PM PDT by glorgau
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