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A top Facebook exec told a whistleblower her concerns about widespread state-sponsored disinformation meant she had job security
A top Facebook exec told a whistleblower her concerns about widespread state-sponsored disinformation meant she had job security
Tyler SonnemakerApr 14, 2021, 04:50 IST
In this April 11, 2018, file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg pauses while testifying before a House Energy and Commerce hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File
Facebook let dictators generate fake support despite employees warnings, the Guardian reported.
Whistleblower Sophie Zhang repeatedly raised concerns to integrity chief
Guy Rosen and other execs.
But Rosen said the amount of
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Whistleblower says Facebook allows global politicians to manipulate the platform
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A new investigation accuses Facebook Inc. of allowing world leaders and politicians to use the platform to manipulate the public, despite being told about it by staff.
In a report by The Guardian today, the newspaper said it had seen internal documents that revealed how Facebook treated 30 cases across 25 countries in which politicians had surreptitiously used Facebook either to drum up support for themselves or to attack opponents.
“The investigation shows how Facebook has allowed major abuses of its platform in poor, small and non-western countries in order to prioritize addressing abuses that attract media attention or affect the U.S. and other wealthy countries,” said the report. It added that in the countries of Afghanistan, Iraq, Mongolia, Mexico, or in parts of Latin America, cases were either ignored or pushed to the back of the pile.
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Facebook allowed the president of Honduras to artificially inflate the appearance of popularity on his posts for nearly a year after the company was first alerted to the activity.
The astroturfing â the digital equivalent of a bussed-in crowd â was just one facet of a broader online disinformation effort that the administration has used to attack critics and undermine social movements, Honduran activists and scholars say.
Facebook posts by Juan Orlando Hernández, an authoritarian rightwinger whose 2017 re-election is widely viewed as fraudulent, received hundreds of thousands of fake likes from more than a thousand inauthentic Facebook Pages â profiles for businesses, organizations and public figures â that had been set up to look like Facebook user accounts.