Ex-Facebook employee on the company's dangerous loophole: 'Autocrats don't bother to hide'
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Original upload date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 02:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:21:53 GMT
As a data scientist at Facebook, Sophie Zhang spent more than two years investigating fake 'engagement', or inauthentic likes, comments, shares and reactions. In the process, she uncovered political m
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anipulation networks across 25 countries, several of which Facebook ultimately took down. Much of this abuse centered on a loophole in Facebook's rules: while the company removes fake accounts, it does not prevent users from creating inauthentic Pages. Here, Zhang – who was fired last year – explains how governments took advantage of this lack of enforcement