Newsworthy Event - Live I am Sophie Zhang. At FB, I worked in my spare time to catch state-sponsored troll farms in multiple nations. I became a whist

I am Sophie Zhang. At FB, I worked in my spare time to catch state-sponsored troll farms in multiple nations. I became a whistleblower because FB didn't care. Ask me anything. : IAmA

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Newsworthy Event - Live I am Sophie Zhang. At FB, I worked in my spare time to catch state-sponsored troll farms in multiple nations. I became a whistleblower because FB didn't care. Ask me anything. (self.IAmA)

I'm Sophie Zhang. I was fired from Facebook in September 2020; on my last day, I stayed up in an all-nighter to write a 7.8k word farewell memo that was leaked to the press and went viral on Reddit. I went public with the Guardian on April 12 of this year, because the problems I worked on won't be solved unless I force the issue like this.

In the process of my work at Facebook, I caught state-sponsored troll farms in Honduras and Azerbaijan that I only convinced the company to act on after a year - and was unable to stop the perpetrators from immediately returning afterwards.

In India, I worked on a much smaller case where I found multiple groups of inauthentic activity benefiting multiple major political parties and received clearance to take them down. I took down all but one network - as soon as I realized that it was directly tied to a sitting member of the Lok Sabha, I was suddenly ignored,