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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 bcherny »

anupamchugh wrote: post #4

Facebook is a company that never stood by small businesses. It's also the company that manipulated users into a free basic services just to create their own walled garden in the internet. Still, sardonically they created two ad campaigns: Apple vs free internet and vs small businesses. Their whole marketing stunt was laughably wrong. No wonder their chief left the company.

> Facebook is a company that never stood by small businesses.

Curious what makes you say this? Knowing a handful of small business owners, I hear lots of good things about how great FB ads are for reaching their customers without requiring multi-million dollar ad spends, agencies, etc.

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Post by mlthoughts2018 »

wpietri wrote: post #54
mlthoughts2018 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Oh, interesting! I hadn't heard of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Mazes At this point, its research is nearly 40 years out of date. Is it still worth reading? And are there more up-to-date versions?

Moral Mazes is one of the rare books I return to and read multiple times. Far from being out of date, 40 years later it is more relevant and the research lines up more directly with corporate behavior than really any other research on this topic written since then. It really is a tremendous book.

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Post by nowherebeen »

dcgudeman wrote: post #28
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”?

How about his “copy, acquire, kill” strategy for startups and how he even pretends it’s even remotely fair for a fledging startup to compete with a multi billion dollar company?

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Post by victorvation »

sorokod wrote: post #43
SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Well, "Defence" would, as the intended product is not necessarily peace...

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Post by onetimemanytime »

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.

FB's "Chief of Advertising Integrity" and Google's "Chief of Privacy Integrity" ....

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Post by [deleted] »

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”.

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Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

petre wrote: post #179
_1gwx wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are expressing their own opinion, and the comment clearly explains how they draw a parallel between Facebook and tobacco companies. Why do you need a link? Also, while Facebook may not directly kill people, the hate speech that it helps proliferate does have real consequences for real people. One such instance was in the Muslim genocide in Myanmar. Since you appear to like links a lot, here is one for you: https…

Their ad delivery network is a vechicle for cyberbulying and hate speech and these things do kill people. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/business/hana-kimura-terr... It's also interesting how Japan tries to quell cyberbullying, while regular bulying is rampant in this country with kids dropping out of school.

All social media platforms are vectors for cyber-bullying and hate speech (whatever the hell that is).

At some point, one needs to accept that people suck, and we can't blame communications platforms for their suckiness (much as we might like to).

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Post by _Understated_ »

jldugger wrote: post #170
_Understated_ wrote: post #76

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> As a corporation, Facebook truly seems to be trying to improve its behavior for the benefit of society at large Sorry, that's a hard disagree from me and I think you couldn't be further off the mark. Facebook's entire raison d'etre from day 1 is to take as much data from as many sources as possible, then use the most powerful computers, programmed by the brightest minds, to use that data to maximise their profit wi…

> Facebook's entire raison d'etre from day 1 is to take as much data from as many sources as possible, then use the most powerful computers, programmed by the brightest minds, to use that data to maximise their profit My impression was that on Day 1 it was really just to rate the attractiveness of the coeds at Harvard.

I believe it was but remember the "dumb fucks" quote from Zuckerberg about why people just give him the data freely.

Their entire application has been about data harvesting.

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Post by jhayward »

Reedx wrote: post #61
derivagral wrote: post #50

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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...

That's something said by a 19 year old in an instant message. It doesn't mean anything, especially 17 years later.

I would say that when someone tells you who they are, you should believe them.
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