“The assumption is that if a case does not receive media attention, it poses no societal risk … What is our responsibility when societal risk diverges from PR risk?” - Sophie Zhang theguardian.com/technology/202…
She was pulled into multiple “high-priority” escalations to investigate comments, which did not come from suspected “Russian bots”, but instead were the result of real-life Brexit supporters pretending to be Russian bots in order to troll Labour voters. theguardian.com/technology/202…
Zhang told Rosen that she had been informed that threat intelligence would only prioritize campaigns in “the US/western Europe and foreign adversaries such as Russia/Iran/etc”, a framework Rosen endorsed, saying: “I think that’s the right prioritization.” theguardian.com/technology/202…
“There were 200 suspicious accounts still boosting a politician in Bolivia, she recorded; 100 in Ecuador, 500 in Brazil, 700 in Ukraine, 1,700 in Iraq, 4,000 in India and more than 10,000 in Mexico.“ - Sophie Zhang theguardian.com/technology/202…
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List of countries where Zhang flagged suspicious networks: in Azerbaijan, Mexico, Honduras, Argentina, Italy, the Philippines, Afghanistan, South Korea, Bolivia, Ecuador, Iraq, Tunisia, Turkey, Taiwan... (1) theguardian.com/technology/202…
... Paraguay, El Salvador, India, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Ukraine, Poland, Mongolia, Albania. (2) theguardian.com/technology/202…
“A lot of the time it felt like trying to empty the ocean with an eyedropper,” Zhang told the Guardian. theguardian.com/technology/202…
“threat intelligence would only prioritize campaigns in “the US/western Europe and foreign adversaries such as Russia/Iran/etc”
Facebook is effectively a cyber-arm for the US government. I knew this but it’s nice to have it confirmed. theguardian.com/technology/202…
Facebook is effectively a cyber-arm for the US government. I knew this but it’s nice to have it confirmed. theguardian.com/technology/202…
Aquí tengo tu repuesta @luisassardo. Ya lo sabías pero ahí está la prueba. Algunos países no son una prioridad para Facebook.
https://twitter.com/luisassardo/status/1308467796913913856
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