A top Facebook exec told a whistleblower her concerns about widespread state-sponsored disinformation meant she had ‘job security’ (FB)

A top Facebook exec told a whistleblower her concerns about widespread state-sponsored disinformation meant she had ‘job security’ (FB)

Summary List PlacementFacebook allowed authoritarian governments to use its platform to generate fake support for their regimes for months despite warnings from employees about the disinformation campaigns, an investigation from the Guardian revealed this week. A loophole in Facebook’s policies allowed government officials around the world to create unlimited amounts of fake “pages” which, unlike…