Reddit AMA by FB whistleblower Sophie Zhang who found troll farms

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92 points·mleonhard··10 comments

This was fascinating read, my take away from it was; there need for social media regulation by an 3rd party organization(s), e.g. mass social media needs regulation similar to relations between financial industry and organizations such as FINRA, CFTC, and SEC with reporting/access standards.

That is a great analogy that I had not thought of before and finance is everything to me.

I think in the same way we need to accept all regulation in this area will have flaws but flawed regulation is far better than zero regulation.

> This was fascinating read

A few comments down from the top post it's all about about Milo and Nazi Occultism. People posting walls of links to 5 year old tweets and pasted paragraphs about "evidence of republican tactics". Surely this is one of the worst posts in one of the worst subreddits ever.

Reddit has a low signal to noise ratio. The signal does exist and is often interesting and valuable, even when the noise is excessive.

https://www.teddit.net/r/IAmA/comments/oll01o/i_am_sophie_zh...

How do we find out about her Reddit AMA in advance so one could attend?

By subscribing to the subreddit?

The /r/IAmA subreddit has a Google calendar [0] linked in the sidebar which contains a schedule of all the upcoming AMAs.

[0] https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=amaverify@gma...

Are there people in HN dedicated to identify and stop this type of activity?

Yeah, one guy

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