She risked everything to expose Facebook - now she’s telling her story

To regulators around the world, her story should be a wake-up call. Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it. Now she wants the world to understand why she became so involved in trying to protect democracy. Karen Hao explores how her story shows that we are lucky to know so much about Facebook’s global enabling of election interference, which was only discovered by a unique merging of skills, passion and morals.