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• @techreview @techreview on x

  Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, risked everything to reveal that the company enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it. After nearly a year of avoiding personal questions, @szhang_ds told us her story. https://www.technologyreview.com…

• @fboversight @fboversight on x

  While working at Facebook, Sophie Zhang @szhang_ds discovered a deliberate pattern of geopolitical manipulation. She risked everything for the truth to be told. And has not stopped since. 🙌🙌🙌 https://twitter.com/...

• @dellcam Dell Cameron on x

  When a corporation says anything other than making its stockholders rich is its priority, it's always lying. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @nmatini Nara Matinyan on x

  “The network of fake pages in Azerbaijan is still there.” Brave @szhang_ds exposed how Facebook enabled global political manipulation. Now she's telling her story. #Azerbaijan #Facebook https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...

• @szhang_ds @szhang_ds on x

  In interviews, I've done my best to remain apolitical other than pro-democracy. Democracy should not be a partisan issue; one of my strongest advocates at FB was a former GOP staffer. But for me, the personal was inherently political. This is why I've avoided personal questions.

• @szhang_ds @szhang_ds on x

  Instead, I replaced the screen and opened the door. At 13, I made the cold-eyed calculation that it was better for me to stay and accept the beatings rather than flee into homelessness. My father was not a gentle man. By the time he exhausted himself, I was bruised and bloody.

• @niallfirth Niall Firth on x

  A few recent great stories from @techreview starting this morning with this brilliant, compassionate profile of Sophie Zhang, the Facebook whistleblower by @_KarenHao https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...

• @szhang_ds @szhang_ds on x

  One might expect that he would threaten me into silence. But why would he? That would imply that he was the one who had done something wrong - not me. I wore long sleeves, cleaned off the blood, and prepared an excuse for the bloody scab on my ear. None of the teachers asked.

• @szhang_ds @szhang_ds on x

  When I was 13, my parents discovered I was trans. I locked myself into the 2nd-story bathroom and pried out the window screen while my father tried to beat down the door. I came very close to jumping out of that window to flee into the cold spring night https://www.technologyrevi…

• @dellcam Dell Cameron on x

  Facebook often employs this narrative about it combating harm. But those harms are a direct result of its own decision making. In this it is at best a weapons manufacturer insisting its products are purely for sport whenever questions about gun deaths are raised. https://twitter.…