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The Risk Makers

Viral hate, election interference, and hacked accounts: inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk

Catherine Buni and Soraya Chemaly
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35 min readSep 21, 2020

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OOne spring day in 2014, Susan Benesch arrived at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park and was ushered into a glass-walled conference room. She’d traveled from Washington, D.C., to meet with Facebook’s Compassion Research Team, a…

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Catherine Buni and Soraya Chemaly
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Catherine Buni and Soraya Chemaly are award-winning writers and frequent collaborators. Follow their work on Twitter: @ckbuni and @schemaly.