In September 2020, former Facebook employee Sophie Zhang laid bare the company’s far-ranging threats on its pool of platforms, with Facebook at the centreWhile user privacy and misuse of user data have become the dangerous markers of a technology-giant-gone-rogue, the focus has now shifted to Facebook’s larger threat to democracy and free speechZhang witnessed the manipulation of public discourse in action first-hand, which compelled her to come forward with startling revelations about how “bot accounts” are used on the platform by governments and third-party actors to sway political mood of theReferring to the bot accounts as what Indians commonly understand as often government-backed “IT cells”, Zhang shed light on how these accounts are used by various agencies on Facebook to spread to shape the country's political mood In a memo widely circulated among Facebook employees after she was fired, Zhang alleged that Facebook self-interest and the greed for profit prevented the company from making proactive decisions about protection of democracy
In September 2020, former Facebook employee Sophie Zhang laid bare the company’s far-ranging threats on its pool of platforms, with Facebook at the centre. While user privacy and misuse of user data have become the dangerous markers of a technology-giant-gone-rogue, the focus has now shifted to Facebook’s larger threat to democracy and free speech.
Zhang witnessed the manipulation of public discourse in action first-hand, which...
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