"We simply didn’t care enough to stop them."

Buzzfeed obtained an internal memo sent out by a former Facebook data scientist Zhang explaining how the company failed to act against accounts influencing multiple global political conflicts, namely Honduras and Azerbaijan.

What I took from the story is the immense quantity of fake accounts Facebook has to deal with to make sure these conflicts aren't influenced by bad actors. In some of the networks Zhang was able to take down, she noticed how quickly fake accounts and trolls could return weeks later.