A data scientist reportedly wrote a damning 6,600-word memo to her colleagues at Facebook on her final day at work expressing dire concern over the way the tech giant fails to properly combat the use of fake accounts to sway politics in smaller countries. BuzzFeed obtained a copy of the memo, posted by Sophie Zhang, and published excerpts of it Monday. “In the three years I’ve spent at Facebook, I’ve found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry, and caused international news on multiple occasions,” Zhang reportedly wrote in the memo. The former Facebook scientist provided examples of how her team worked to find and stop misleading Facebook campaigns, including some run by political parties and government figures in Azerbaijan and Honduras, according to BuzzFeed. Zhang was fired from Facebook and sent the memo to employees on her final day of work, BuzzFeed reported.

Source: Huffington Post September 15, 2020 03:33 UTC