A fired Facebook employee wrote a scathing 6,600-word memo detailing the company's failures to stop political manipulation around the world
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg leaving The Merrion Hotel in Dublin after a meeting with politicians to discuss regulation of social media and harmful content in April 2019.A recently fired Facebook data scientist wrote a lengthy memo detailing the tech giant's failures to stop election interference in countries around the world, per a Buzzfeed report.
Instead, Sophie Zhang wrote Facebook prioritized its public image in choosing which fake networks to investigate, even if the "disproportionate impact" of real-world problems would go ignored. Overall, Zhang wrote that she and her team removed "10.5 million fake reactions and fans from high-profile politicians in Brazil and the US in the 2018 elections," according to Buzzfeed. She said she knows that she has "blood on my hands by now" as political strife has erupted in many of these nations.
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