Her story reveals that it is really pure luck that we now know so much about how Facebook enables election interference globally. To regulators, this should be a wake-up call.
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She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.
Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it. After nearly a year of avoiding personal questions, Zhang told us her story.
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