How Does Facebook Influence India’s Democracy? | Sophie Zhang, Data Scientist & a whistleblower, a former employee at Facebook

Jul 8, 2022 "In the three years I’ve spent at Facebook, I’ve found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry, and caused international news on multiple occasions...I have personally made decisions that affected national presidents without oversight, and taken action to enforce against so many prominent politicians globally that I’ve lost count...I know that I have blood on my hands by now"

That’s Sophie Zhang, a former Data Scientist at Facebook who became a whistleblower, in her farewell letter to the company’s employees on her last day. The 6,600 word memo detailed the company’s failures to stop political manipulation around the world, including India.