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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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> tying his donations to having his name put on a hospital Isn't that normal? There's a reason so many buildings have a person's name on them. Carnegie Hall, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Guggenheim Museum, The Getty, The DeYoung, Coit Tower, ... AFAIK Half the buildings on any college campus are named after the donor that paid for it. You want hospitals, how about the Huntington Hospital, Sutter Hospital, UCSF Benioff C…

Yes, it is a question of vanity, not necessarily integrity. Even worse is when politicians do this, so you have Erdoğan University, or Nur-Sultan city.

Vanity not integrity - anthony bourdain - most honest and inspiring man if all time

Re: Facebook's advertising integrity chief leaves company

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Yes. This is surveillance capitalism taken to its extreme. Facebook didn’t invent it, they’re just doing it in a way that makes the consequences more difficult to ignore than Google, which has been able to largely sidestep the blowback by being mission critical to so many people and also having massive goodwill projects that don’t directly point to being profit driven. It’s up to citizens of the US and EU to reign th…

> Facebook didn’t invent it. Didn't Google invent this model? [1] >Surveillance capitalism was invented around 2001 as the solution to financial emergency in the teeth of the dotcom bust when the fledgling company faced the loss of investor confidence. As investor pressure mounted, Google’s leaders abandoned their declared antipathy toward advertising. Instead they decided to boost ad revenue by using their exclusive…

This is not accurate. DoubleClick invented it and then got bought by Google in 2007-2008 (against the wishes of Larry and Sergey). See my Wikipedia article on this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008...
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