The Scale of the Problem of Political Manipulation on Facebook

A former facebook data scientist named sophy zang. Sophy wrote a 66 hundred word memo to her former co workers after she was let go for desperately blowing the whishe whistle on face book's ethically criminal behavior. In agir byjan and honduris, corrupt heads of government and political parties have been caught operating networks of fake accounts to manipulate public opinion. The amount of power she had as a mid level employee to make decisions about a country's political outcomes took a toll on her health. She consciously realized she was ignoring actions that were shattering the democracies of whole nations because she had bigger fish to fry.