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Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Post by mlthoughts2018 »

objclxt wrote: post #6
absolutelyrad wrote: post #5

"Chief of Advertising Integrity" does anyone take that title seriously? Forget advertising, Facebook and it's CEO himself has no integrity.

Facebook uses “Integrity” as a friendly synonym for abuse / spam / illegal activity. For example, it avoids them actively having to say they have a “fake accounts team” (which would in turn indicate they have a fake accounts problem). Instead it’s part of the “Community Integrity team”.

Pulled straight out of the Moral Mazes playbook, chapter on “dexterity with symbols.”

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Post by mlthoughts2018 »

rock_hard wrote: post #7

https://twitter.com/robleathern/status/1345133167833997317?s... His own statement

It’s so gauche and embarrassing to see a serious executive announcing a principled career change through Twitter. “Tweet 6/12” ... a red flag should go up somewhere. Can you not buy a domain and link a short paragraph?

This isn’t an issue related to Threader or visual reconstruction of tweets. Rather, how did society get to a place like this? It’s bananas.

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Post by ffggvv »

high_derivative wrote: post #18
geodel wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From Twitter: > After almost 4 years, I made the difficult decision to leave Facebook, and 12/30/20 was my last day at FB. I've had a great experience in a difficult, fun, fast-growing and impactful role at the company working with amazing people From internet: > At Facebook, RSUs are subject to a 4-year vesting schedule: 25% vests in the 1st year (5% every 2.4 months), then 25% in each of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th years…

The initial 4 year schedule is largely irrelevant, considering high performers get large refreshers.

not true. people usually have a large cliff after four years where their compensation goes down. because they ir initial grant is no longer vesting so they go from:

initial grant / 4 + (refreshers x 3) per year

to:

refreshers x 4 per year

in addition, refreshers are given at the current stock price whereas the initial was grant was given at the 4 years ago price which was much lower therefore appreciated considerably

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Post by JoshTko »

mlthoughts2018 wrote: post #23
rock_hard wrote: post #7

https://twitter.com/robleathern/status/1345133167833997317?s... His own statement

It’s so gauche and embarrassing to see a serious executive announcing a principled career change through Twitter. “Tweet 6/12” ... a red flag should go up somewhere. Can you not buy a domain and link a short paragraph? This isn’t an issue related to Threader or visual reconstruction of tweets. Rather, how did society get to a place like this? It’s bananas.

Can you elaborate why it's gauche? I'm assuming the intent is to share on the platform that has the audience you are seeing to share the message to. It's not user friendly to direct people to another channel.

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Post by SilasX »

nowherebeen wrote: post #9
objclxt wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook uses “Integrity” as a friendly synonym for abuse / spam / illegal activity. For example, it avoids them actively having to say they have a “fake accounts team” (which would in turn indicate they have a fake accounts problem). Instead it’s part of the “Community Integrity team”.

So it's a form of doublespeak?

I’d say doublespeak would be if “advertising integrity” were the department charged with respecting users’ privacy and (informed) choices, while said dept. executed Facebook’s policies that go very much against these things.

But if parent is correct, the role is to enforce things users want (regarding spam/fraud/illegal goods), which matches standard notions of integrity, so it’s not doublespeak.

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Post by dcgudeman »

absolutelyrad wrote: post #5

"Chief of Advertising Integrity" does anyone take that title seriously? Forget advertising, Facebook and it's CEO himself has no integrity.

Honest question, what did Mark Zuckerberg do that makes you think he has “no integrity”?
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