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Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation
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14 Sep 2020 ... The 6,600-word memo, written by former Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang, is filled with concrete examples of heads of government and ...

Facebook staffer sends 'blood on my hands' memo - BBC News
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15 Sep 2020 ... In her memo, parts of which were published by Buzzfeed without her permission, Ms Zhang said: "In the three years I've spent at Facebook, I've ...

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14 Sep 2020 ... Zhang's push to dedicate more resources to civic platform problems led to her dismissal. Guy Rosen, Facebook's VP of Integrity, attempted to play ...

Sweeping internal Facebook memo: “I have blood on my hands ...
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14 Sep 2020 ... BuzzFeed News points to Zhang's example: in February 2019, a NATO researcher tipped Facebook off about apparent Russian interference with ...

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16 Sep 2020 ... The memo revealed concrete examples where Facebook had ignored or been slow to act on political manipulation found on the platform. The ...

Facebook ignored blatant political manipulation around the world ...
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14 Sep 2020 ... A fired Facebook data scientist has written a 6600-word memo ... Sophie Zhang, was fired earlier this month and posted the memo on her final ...

Whistleblower Alleges Facebook Failed to Act on Worldwide ...
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24 Sep 2020 ... A former data scientist at Facebook, Sophie Zhang, sent an internal memo about the company's lack of action regarding fake accounts that ...

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27 Oct 2020 ... In her 6,600-word internal memo, Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook have given concrete examples of heads of government and ...

Facebook Is Failing in Global Disinformation Fight, Says Former ...
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14 Sep 2020 ... Zhang's post, Facebook said the company regularly removed coordinated influence campaigns, and had a large team working on security. “ ...

'Blood on my hands': Fired Facebook worker says company failing to ...
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15 Sep 2020 ... The memo alleges the site prioritised responding to issues that would affect ... In her 6,600-word report, mid-level employee Sophie Zhang also ...

Sophie Zhang and The Social Dilemma
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15 Sep 2020 ... But Zhang's memo raises questions about Facebook's size, power, and accountability to its users — particularly its non-Western users — that ...

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18 Sep 2020 ... Zhang's memo only adds to what we already know about the ease with which bad actors use Facebook to further violence and authoritarian ...

Facebook's Ex Data Scientist Leaks Memo About Massive Scandal ...
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14 Sep 2020 ... Sophie Zhang: Facebook Data Scientist to Whistleblower. Sophie Zhang comes forth with shocking revelations backed with evidence and ...

Ex-Staffer Says Facebook Can't Protect Other Countries From ...
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14 Sep 2020 ... Sophie Zhang wrote a 6,600-word memo revealing what it was like to combat bots designed to undermine democracy in other countries, ...

Facebook's Zhang memo, AI's fake election news
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17 Sep 2020 ... Technology commentator Mark Pesce joins Kathryn to talk about the memo released by former Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang that ...

Facebook whistleblower claims platform ignored political ...
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15 Sep 2020 ... Sophie Zhang, a recently fired data scientist on Facebook's Site Integrity team, penned the 6600-word internal memo after turning down a ...

Facebook Doesn't Care About Manipulating Political Opinion ...
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17 Sep 2020 ... Mentioned in the copy of the memo which was first received by Buzzfeed News, Zhang has stated that when she told the upper management ...

Facebook ignored widespread political manipulation, claims ...
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15 Sep 2020 ... Sophie Zhang wrote a 6600 word memo accusing Facebook of a failure to act against malicious activity from foreign governments.

Fired Facebook employee said firm failed to stop election ...
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14 Sep 2020 ... The 6,600-word memo was written by Sophie Zhang, a data scientist whose job at the company was to identify fake accounts attempting to ...

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Reading it over more closely, the article doesn't exclude the possibility that the person who leaked the memo was actually Ms Zhang. The anonymous "other ...

Former Facebook employee exposes its inability to stop ...
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15 Sep 2020 ... A 6600-word memo written by fired Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang shows how widespread political misinformation campaigns are on ...

2020 Whistleblower of the Year Candidate – Sophie Zhang ...
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4 Jan 2021 ... Zhang's memo not only revealed widespread inauthentic behavior by foreign governments on Facebook's platform but also asserted that ...

A fired Facebook employee wrote a scathing 6,600-word memo ...
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15 Sep 2020 ... The memo names multiple incidents where governments and top political leaders are named for misusing Facebook. Zhang's memo talks ...

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14 Sep 2020 ... Huge kudos to Sophie Zhang, an employee who turned down $64k severance to tell the truth. The speed & scale of the damage Facebook is ...

'Politically-sophisticated' attempt to influence Delhi elections on ...
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15 Sep 2020 ... Former Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang has also cited examples in the memo of how the company has failed to act on time or with ...

Facebook Internal Memo Reveals Challenges Social Media ...
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7 Oct 2020 ... The Buzzfeed article that reported the memo quotes a former colleague who lauded Zhang's integrity and passion for her job of tracking down ...

Facebook failing to stop political manipulation: fired employee ...
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15 Sep 2020 ... A scathing memo written by Sophie Zhang on her last day at Facebook, obtained by BuzzFeed News, claimed the California giant ignored or ...

Facebook disinformation: Whistleblower says over 1,000 actors ...
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15 Sep 2020 ... Sophie Zhang, who was fired this month, wrote a 6,600-word memo detailing how the platform was used to sway public opinion and manipulate ...

Former Facebook employee's memo indicates company's inability ...
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15 Sep 2020 ... Sophie Zhang, who worked as a data scientist at Facebook until recently, penned a 6.600-word memo detailing how she struggled to make her ...

Facebook Turning Blind Eye to Political Abuse Globally: Report
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15 Sep 2020 ... The report is based on a 6600-word memo written a Facebook data scientist who was recently fired by the company. The memo Zhang worked ...

Facebook whistleblower: 'I have blood on my hands'
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15 Sep 2020 ... In the memo, Zhang said she had “no oversight whatsoever” and was “left in a situation where I was trusted with immense influence” in her spare ...

Facebook took political manipulation lightly, reveals leaked memo ...
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15 Sep 2020 ... Referring to her work related to India, the memo by ex Facebook employee Sophie Zhang detailed that she worked to remove “a ...

Ex-Facebook employee says the site is rife with disinformation, and ...
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15 Sep 2020 ... A former Facebook data scientist made fresh claims about the social ... Facebook responded to Zhang's memo, saying it had already been ...

Facebook took political manipulation lightly, says leaked memo ...
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15 Sep 2020 ... In the 6,600-word memo, former Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang wrote that she found evidence of coordinated campaigns to boost or ...

Leaked memo exposes persisting Facebook failings in ...
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15 Sep 2020 ... Former Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang claims 'blood on her hands' over content decisions with huge real-life impact due to absence of ...

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14 Sep 2020 ... Instead, Sophie Zhang wrote Facebook prioritized its public image in choosing which fake networks to investigate, even if the "disproportionate ...

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15 Sep 2020 ... BENGALURU: A former Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang has alleged in a 6600-word memo that the social media giant knew leaders of ...