{"id":3207,"date":"2021-10-11T05:39:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T03:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/how-to-blow-the-whistle-on-facebook-from-someone-who-already-did\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T05:39:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T03:39:52","slug":"how-to-blow-the-whistle-on-facebook-from-someone-who-already-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/how-to-blow-the-whistle-on-facebook-from-someone-who-already-did\/","title":{"rendered":"How to blow the whistle on Facebook \u2013 from someone who already did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This April, Sophie Zhang told the world about her employer\u2019s failure to combat deception and abuse. Her advice? No screenshots, lawyer up \u2013 and trust yourself<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, I did something I almost never do: I put on a dress. Then I dropped my phone and other electronics off at the home of friends who had agreed to tell anyone who asked that I was at their place the entire time, and headed to the Oakland offices of the Guardian for my first meeting with a reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Leaving my electronics was a safeguard against possible tracking by my then employer, Facebook. The dress was an additional layer of alibi: I theorized that if anyone from work saw me and could contradict my first alibi, they might conclude that my unusual behavior was evidence of nothing more than an affair.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/11\/facebook-whistleblower-sophie-zhang-guide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/34ff0931a214287d1dccf407e6dfa1818ed6334a\/0_0_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=32c185dc3f1d8050bdb2045a748880b5\" title=\"How to blow the whistle on Facebook \u2013 from someone who already did\" \/>This April, Sophie Zhang told the world about her employer\u2019s failure to combat deception and abuse. Her advice? No screenshots, lawyer up \u2013 and trust yourself<br \/>\nTwo years ago, I did something I almost never do: I put on a dress. Then I dropped my phone and other electronics off at the home of friends who had agreed to tell anyone who asked that I was at their place the entire time, and headed to the Oakland offices of the Guardian for my first meeting with a reporter.<br \/>\nLeaving my electronics was a safeguard against possible tracking by my then employer, Facebook. The dress was an additional layer of alibi: I theorized that if anyone from work saw me and could contradict my first alibi, they might conclude that my unusual behavior was evidence of nothing more than an affair. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This April, Sophie Zhang told the world about her employer\u2019s failure to combat deception and abuse. Her advice? No screenshots, lawyer up \u2013 and trust yourself Two years ago, I did something I almost never do: I put on a dress. Then I dropped my phone and other electronics off at the home of friends &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/how-to-blow-the-whistle-on-facebook-from-someone-who-already-did\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to blow the whistle on Facebook \u2013 from someone who already did<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}