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This is referring to 100 external software developers that use Facebook's APIs, not Facebook engineers as I initially assumed reading the title. Source: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2019/11/05/changes...
Within the tech industry, specially Hacker News readers, we know that Facebook does a lot of "growth hacks", "gorilla marketing", "Microsoft way of doing things - Bill's era (remember Netscape vs. IE?)". So, even if FB Internal docs are released, the real surprising fact will be that end users are not going to simply stop using FB, IG, WhatsApp and we get mystified about "WHY"?! Or just "accept" that's always the case.
At the end, the users are either not interested to follow what FB does nor they have access to the truth. With those Billion of users, most of them are outside the sphere of influence of American media. Each country shows its most interesting news, a combination of top current world and local news. The current ones would be "Climate Change", "Hong Kong Protests", "Trade war US and China", "Something in the Middle East", "Something about US Stocks", and maybe: something about FB.
If we imagine ourselves as news writers, it is not easy to convey the nuances, calculated moves, and strategic choices that FB is doing to control its market to the general population. Thus, there are many barriers to really use this information to change FB behavior. Perhaps I'm pessimistic about it.
So at the end, it will only be surprising if the users understand and FB get huge pushback from its user base.
https://www.netflix.com/title/80117542
While some of the assertions in the film are unsubstantiated, the resulting classroom discussion on the role of social media and privacy were immensely constructive.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-fascinated-b... "My wife was making fun of me, saying she thought there were three people on the honeymoon: me, her, and Augustus," Zuckerberg told the New Yorker. "All the photos were different sculptures of Augustus." On his fascination with Augustus, Zuckerberg said, "Basically, through a really harsh approach, he established two hundred years of world peace. What ar…
Pax Romana, like pax mongolica or pax americana, wasn't/isn't as "peaceful" as it is made out to be. Secondly, Augustus didn't establish "world peace". He established "peace" in the roman empire, which isn't the world.
Headline 2 weeks from now: Facebook now says as many as 1000 developers may have accessed user data improperly
Headline 2 weeks from now: Facebook now says as many as 1000 developers may have accessed user data improperly
as many as 1000 developers may have accessed user data improperly
We watched this documentary in the fake news class I taught this past summer. https://www.netflix.com/title/80117542 While some of the assertions in the film are unsubstantiated, the resulting classroom discussion on the role of social media and privacy were immensely constructive.
This is referring to 100 external software developers that use Facebook's APIs, not Facebook engineers as I initially assumed reading the title. Source: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2019/11/05/changes...
To clarify further, the exact phrasing used was "roughly 100 partners", as in roughly 100 external legal entities. Each legal entity could have any number of software developers.