Thread by @HalMarshall2309

"In 2019, she joined Facebook to work on civic misinformation. She took the job because she viewed it as an opportunity to make sure others wouldn’t experience the pain she did of losing a friend to online conspiracies, she said at the Yale panel." washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

"She also wanted to do her part in the run-up to the 2020 election to prevent a repeat of the foreign interference in the 2016 election, she said.

"She went into the company clear-eyed about the problems with social media, which had been extensively covered by the news media in the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. But she soon learned that the problems were much worse than she realized.

“ 'I thought I knew how bad misinformation was,' she said in a recent Post interview. 'Then I learned what it was doing in countries that don’t speak English.'

"She said she discovered that problems of misinformation are exacerbated in other countries, and that the version of Facebook in the United States is the 'most sanitized.'

"She said at the Yale panel that she kept learning new information that concerned her, including the scale at which people die in ethnic violence fanned by Facebook’s choices, or the security underinvestment in non-English-speaking countries."

Here's a link to a 2018 article about the massive misappropriation of Facebook data by Cambridge Analytica:
washingtonpost.com/news/politics/…