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The inside story of Sophie Zhang’s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected

Sophie Zhang detected networks of fake accounts supporting political leaders around the world. Photograph: Jason Henry/The Guardian The inside story of Sophie Zhang’s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected By Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco Mon 12 Apr 2021 04.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 19 Apr 2021 19.51 EDT Share Prefer the Guardian on Google Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook’s systems, she published one final message on the company’s internal forum, a farewell tradition at Facebook known as a “badge post”. “Officially, I’m a low-level [

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