Thread by @szhang_ds

I was naïve and silly when I caught Honduran President @JuanOrlandoH red-handed. I thought I'd hand it over, the right teams would take care of it, and I could get back to my actual job.
Instead, it was the beginning of a Sisyphean 2-year struggle (1/6)
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FB wasn't too surprised at the revelation. When I presented the situation to public policy leaders in 2018, one of them explained that he'd already been told socially by Hernandez's political consultants that they used troll farms.

That should have been my first red flag. (2/6)

But to me this was shocking. I was only half a year into a low-level DS job. I spoke no Spanish, had never visited Latin America, knew nothing about who this Juan Orlando Hernandez chap was until I Googled him.

I still caught him red-handed. He didn't care to hide. (3/6)

FB tells you that the job is hard, that cases take time to understand.

But there's so much obvious low-hanging fruit. Their caution and indefinite delays slowly become indistinguishable from obstruction. The filibuster is a legislative tool for a reason, after all. (4/6)

The idea of FB publicizing takedowns is to embarrass those responsible.

In 2019, JOH used soldiers to shoot protesters after police refused. This year, a U.S. court sentenced his brother to life for helping him traffic drugs.

This is a man incapable of embarrassment. (5/6)

I'm just a silly American girl. The most I know how to say in Spanish is "Estoy acariciando al gato." I'd much rather stay home and pet my cats, rather than walking into the lion's den like this.
But even I can say #fuerajoh (6/6)