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How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account

The inside story of Sophie Zhang’s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected

Click to view the original at theguardian.com

Hasnain says:

So many hard hitting quotes here, it’s hard to pick just one.

“But it quickly became clear that no one was interested in taking responsibility for policing the abuses of the president of a poor nation with just 4.5m Facebook users. The message she received from all corners – including from threat intelligence, the small and elite team of investigators responsible for uncovering CIB campaigns – was that the abuses were bad, but resources were tight, and, absent any external pressure, Honduras was simply not a priority.”

Posted on 2021-04-12T15:53:28+0000