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Sophia Chang... Opposition to the "Facebook State"
The so-called Sophia Chang is engaged in a battle with "Facebook", which could somewhat change the course of the most famous social network, and create an opposition front of a different kind against it.
For two years, specifically from 2018 to 2020, Zhang was a Facebook employee in the counterfeiting department, but she woke up one bright morning to write a critical post against Facebook, because according to her account, she discovered that the network was complicit in “network fraud” and “Political fraud” in 25 countries in the world, the most prominent of which is a political account in Honduras that attracts half a million users, in which likes are used for political purposes, and she and her colleagues removed 10 million fake likes for political reasons in the United States and Brazil in 2018.
Chang confirmed to the British “Guardian” that she did not reach the last step, i.e. the clash directly without introduction, and she told the newspaper: “I spoke to my direct boss, my boss, and the deputy head of the network, and I tried to reform, and even tried to work with them without pay after they fired me,” and that she was Torn between her loyalty to the company she works for and her human loyalty.
On the other hand, the management of "Facebook" downplayed the importance of Chang's words, and considered him to be delusional with a great deal of exaggeration.
"We fundamentally disagree with Chang's diagnosis of our priorities," Facebook spokeswoman Liz Burgess said. A network that practiced organized abuse, most of which were local networks from Latin America, even the Far East, we dealt with the problem of spam, fake pages, and we investigated every problem we spotted.”
So far, the dispute between Chang and Facebook appears to be limited and ambiguous, and the space between Chang's words and the network's is not far away.
The network partially acknowledges that its platform has sometimes turned into a hotbed for exploiters, but while the network sees it as a “deficiency,” Zhang sees it as “complicity.” Chang also calls on Facebook to expand and inclusiveness in the effort to resist political abuse, while Facebook responds that “the human potential It does not help.” The strongest point of contention remains Zhang’s accusation that the network is “interested in public relations at the expense of violations,” and its interest in ordinary violations, while giving the least effort to what is the most dangerous, i.e. negative “political exploitation.”
Whatever the case, we may have been at the beginning of the dispute, and Chang, as she was gone, called on her colleagues to resume what she had started, and certainly the continuation of a battle of this kind, if it is guaranteed to be clean, is a victory for the values of transparency, for millions of users, and even for the “Facebook” network. » itself before anything else.
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