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Sophie Zhang

Sophie Zhang became a whistleblower after spending 2 years and 8 months at Facebook failing to fix the company from within. She personally caught two national governments using Facebook to manipulate their own citizenry, while also revealing concerning decisions made by Facebook regarding inauthenticity in Indian and U.S. politics.

After testifying regarding her findings to the EU and British Parliaments and California State Senate, she currently stays home to pet her cats.

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Reporting and Artificial Intelligence
(2022)
Artificial intelligence makes it possible today to distinguish profiles based on user data, on the basis of which administrators of social networks and large media companies know which groups are sensitive to which types of information. However, how transparent and correct is this information?
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