The ex-CIA officer on why she lasted only six months at the tech giant and her fears about its role in the forthcoming US electionJohn Naughton on how
Facebook could stop Biden’s progress to the White HouseQ&A with early Facebook investor Roger McNameeCarole Cadwalladr: If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attentionYaël Eisenstat was a CIA officer for 13 years and a national security adviser to vice president
Joe Biden. Between June and November 2018, she was Facebook’s global head of
elections integrity operations, business integrity.
Before you were hired by Facebook to investigate the company’s effect on the electoral process, what was your opinion of it?Early on, I was a big fan of Facebook. I had lived and worked all over the world, so I used it to stay connected to
Friends. But, in 2015, I started becoming incredibly concerned that it was becoming a real threat to democracy because of the role it was playing in the breakdown of civil discourse.