I am Sophie Zhang, Facebook whistleblower. Ask me anything
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#2>“A manager on Strategic Response mused to myself that most of the world outside the West was effectively the Wild West with myself as the part-time dictator – he meant the statement as a compliment, but it illustrated the immense pressures upon me.”
>She often felt responsible when civil unrest took hold in places she didn’t prioritize for investigation and action.
"Hard to be God".
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#3https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mqw86u/i_am_sophie_zh... is a less hostile link
Re: I am Sophie Zhang, Facebook whistleblower. Ask me anything
#4This shows how powerful social networks have become, and how that power is harming society. Regulation and supervision by independent entities is one solution.
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#5https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mqw86u/i_am_sophie_zh... is a less hostile link
Add /.compact at the end to reduce the hostility even further.
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#6She tries to evade questions about censorship based on politics claiming she just deals with problems of inauthenticity, basically the issue of fake accounts trying to push some agenda, whether the agenda is right or "fake". But it is a bit hypocritical to disconnect the two, when you censor political opinions you are doing exactly the same thing only from the opposite side, you basically sqew the real map of political opinions. She wants Facebook to both censor and fight fake accounts, basically controlling the discourse from any possible direction. In some way facebook tries to be more linient and let different forces balance itself while she wants to be the ultimate commissar of who can push their agenda and who can't.
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#7She tries to evade questions about censorship based on politics claiming she just deals with problems of inauthenticity, basically the issue of fake accounts trying to push some agenda, whether the agenda is right or "fake". But it is a bit hypocritical to disconnect the two, when you censor political opinions you are doing exactly the same thing only from the opposite side, you basically sqew the real map of politic…
I agree. Power corrupts. No one is immune.
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#8https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mqw86u/i_am_sophie_zh... is a less hostile link
Can recommend Old Reddit Redirect -- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/old-reddit-redirec... (minimal permissions and background.js is trivial to inspect)
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https://teddit.net/r/IAmA/comments/mqw86u/i_am_sophie_zhang_...
much less hostile link
Re: I am Sophie Zhang, Facebook whistleblower. Ask me anything
#10She tries to evade questions about censorship based on politics claiming she just deals with problems of inauthenticity, basically the issue of fake accounts trying to push some agenda, whether the agenda is right or "fake". But it is a bit hypocritical to disconnect the two, when you censor political opinions you are doing exactly the same thing only from the opposite side, you basically sqew the real map of politic…
She wants Facebook, not herself, to only allow pushing agenda via democratic human votes... and paid promotions.