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NEW DELHI: A former Facebook employee, Sophie Zhang, has alleged that a “coordinated attempt” was made in the social media platform to “influence” the Delhi elections in February this year. “I worked through the disease to take down a politically sophisticated network of more than 1,000 actors working to influence …

A “politically sophisticated” attempt to influence the Delhi elections in February unfolded on Facebook before it was quietly withdrawn, a recently fired employee at the social media company said in a memo. Former Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang has also cited examples in the memo of how the company failed …