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Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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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.

Twitter lacks both document authoring features and professionalism context for anything like an announcement like this. It comes off like an out of touch person trying to stay “fresh” or “with it” shoe-horning a dry press release comment into a medium people use to laugh at cat photos. Even official Twitter accounts and journalists have the sense to link externally to more important matters. It undermines credibility to put those matters directly on Twitter. A single short tweet of that type is bad enough, but a 12 tweet thread is further forcing long discourse into a platform built to avoid it.

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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So it's a form of doublespeak?

I don’t know that I’d call it doublespeak. There’s a lot to be said for defining a job in terms of what it’s trying to produce rather than what it’s trying to fight.

Like a "Ministry of Peace" for war department?

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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I don’t know that I’d call it doublespeak. There’s a lot to be said for defining a job in terms of what it’s trying to produce rather than what it’s trying to fight.

In principle, good point. In practice, it really depends on where your levels of cynicism are at. Crediting FB with wanting to "produce 'integrity'" or even that they're "trying to fight" the myriad of destructive externalities their money-geyser has spewed forth is.. generous.

I think the point is more that they are fighting click-spam and other kinds of advertising fraud, to maintain the integrity of their advertising platform, in the sense in which an antivirus is maintaining the integrity of your system; NOT the sense in which an anti-graft law is maintaining the integrity of a politician.

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Remember, if you work for FB, you are part of the problem.

I feel strongly that we’re at the point where one can’t think of Facebook and be ignorant of the problems and the clear abusive practices they have and continue to be engaged in. Every time they get caught they feint an apology and proceed to either ignore the issue, continue that same practice but in a different way, or engage in some new abusive scheme. It is foundational to them because it is fundamentally part of Mark Zuckerberg’s ethics, or lack there of as the case appears to be.

So... in my opinion anyone going to work for Facebook, or continuing to work for them is no different than someone doing the same at a tobacco company. They know what is going on at those organizations and they are choosing to look the other way. That in and of itself is not illegal, of course, but they can’t cry foul when they get accused of doing immoral and unethical things while employed there.

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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"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”?

Grandstanding about transferring all his wealth for tax purposes under the guise of it being "charity", obnoxious attempts to man-in-the-middle most of India's internet connectivity, screwing over users with "privacy zuckering" that causes settings to revert, etc.

The joy of my life was seeing Zuckerberg getting absolutely owned on his own Facebook page by thousands and thousands of Indian people who wanted nothing to do with his money-grubbing initiatives.

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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"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”?

I'll use the gawker article[0] about what he thinks of his users:

[0] https://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-us...

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