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Three minutes of my life I'm never going to get back. You can stop reading by paragraph two at "We care deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health." All Facebook cares about is engagement.
This note is a rant against the whistle-blower, without even an empty apology.
Mmm, requires login, can anyone share the post? Thanks in advance!
I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company. --- Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you. First, the SEV that took down all our services yesterday was the worst outage we've had in years. We've spent the past 24 hours debriefing how we can strengthen our systems against this kind of failure. This was also a reminder of how much our work matters to peop…
I don't think any of this fight is about the actual issue of social media's impact, but perhaps I was naive to ever even think that it was about those issues to begin with.
Maybe I am missing something obvious, but who is he talking about here?
> If we wanted to ignore research, why would we create an industry-leading research program to understand these important issues in the first place? > If we wanted to hide our results, why would we have established an industry-leading standard for transparency and reporting on what we're doing? This is HILARIOUSLY out of touch with reality. You don't call someone a whistleblower if the reports they leaked were TRANSP…
Of course! He probably likes it that way.
Honestly am I the only one that doesn’t think that Facebook is that bad? Some of those points that he makes really should make you stop and think.
Which points made you stop and think
I’m prone to believe that, but also not sure that is has anything to do with the other issues at hand.
The best I can come up with is that Facebook is so big that the "evil" is an emergent property of all the different things that are happening. It's so big no one can comprehend the big picture of it all, so while the individuals involved have good intentions with what they are working on, the sum total of all employees' intentions ends up broken.
So maybe Zuck is telling the truth here, that they are trying to fix all this. But no one can see the forrest from the trees.
I can't reconcile it any other way.
Someone on HN actually linked to the slides, and it does seem like there's a lot of FUD being created.
This reminds me of moxie talking about damaging research focusing on Signal:
> To me, this article reads as a better example of the problems with the security industry and the way security research is done today, because I think the lesson to anyone watching is clear: don't build security into your products, because that makes you a target for researchers, even if you make the right decisions, and regardless of whether their research is practically important or not. It's much more effective to be Telegram: just leave cryptography out of everything, except for your marketing.
source: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=moxie&next=16117487