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Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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anyone have more info on the group that makes these videos ? seems like they make decoy accounts and pretend to be underage targets but would like to learn more about their process: are they legit or would it be equivalent to police entrapment ?

What do you mean legit? Usable in court? Nothing else is really equivalent to "police entrapment" though. What makes that bad is that it's the police doing it, otherwise it's just asking a favor. If you can lie your way to getting someone to confess to a crime that's pretty much fine in the legal system, I think. Police do it all the time anyway and not even as some shady thing they have to hide it's just part of the…

In American jurisprudence, the police can be as deceptive as they want to be in interrogations. They can say that a confederate confessed, that they have evidence, that the victim died or identified the suspect, regardless of the truth of those statements. See the recent Nightingale case, which is hilarious because criminals are idiots.

"""Ferland and Keegan suggested to Nightingale that they potentially had satellite photography of his car at the Millers’ home; had DNA test results showing that Nightingale’s DNA was on a doorknob and a locking mechanism at the Millers’ home, which was significant because it appeared that the last person out had locked the door; had found flakes of Nightingale’s skin on the Millers’ bodies; and had recovered fingerprint or DNA evidence on money that the detectives told Nightingale they had seized from his father. These were “realistic bluffs” and untrue."""

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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One interesting secondary effect: people are now saying Reddit (the company) is participating in a coverup, even to the extent of deleting accounts. https://twitter.com/simpbloodbath/status/1494464667032252432...

I want to say “I doubt that’s true,” but that’s the thing about propaganda. It’s often hard to tell.

EDIT: it seems true: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/suq88j/...

Hmm. That’s not a great look. On the other hand, the submitter’s account still seems to be active. Maybe they reversed.

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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One interesting secondary effect: people are now saying Reddit (the company) is participating in a coverup, even to the extent of deleting accounts. https://twitter.com/simpbloodbath/status/1494464667032252432... I want to say “I doubt that’s true,” but that’s the thing about propaganda. It’s often hard to tell. EDIT: it seems true: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/suq88j/... Hmm. That’s not a gre…

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/top/ it's literally the #1 video of the day in what I assume is the biggest videos sub; they are probably just removing reposts.

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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One interesting secondary effect: people are now saying Reddit (the company) is participating in a coverup, even to the extent of deleting accounts. https://twitter.com/simpbloodbath/status/1494464667032252432... I want to say “I doubt that’s true,” but that’s the thing about propaganda. It’s often hard to tell. EDIT: it seems true: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/suq88j/... Hmm. That’s not a gre…

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Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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One interesting secondary effect: people are now saying Reddit (the company) is participating in a coverup, even to the extent of deleting accounts. https://twitter.com/simpbloodbath/status/1494464667032252432... I want to say “I doubt that’s true,” but that’s the thing about propaganda. It’s often hard to tell. EDIT: it seems true: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/suq88j/... Hmm. That’s not a gre…

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/top/ it's literally the #1 video of the day in what I assume is the biggest videos sub; they are probably just removing reposts.

Reddit admins themselves removing reposts? Seems unlikely.

And sure, it’s #1 now. The point was that they were doing this as the story was unfolding.

If you look at the timestamps, there’s a pretty big gap between the one at #1 and the one I linked. It’s pretty strange seeing admins remove a post like this. And a bunch of people are saying they saw the account get suspended.

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/top/ it's literally the #1 video of the day in what I assume is the biggest videos sub; they are probably just removing reposts.

Reddit admins themselves removing reposts? Seems unlikely. And sure, it’s #1 now. The point was that they were doing this as the story was unfolding. If you look at the timestamps, there’s a pretty big gap between the one at #1 and the one I linked. It’s pretty strange seeing admins remove a post like this. And a bunch of people are saying they saw the account get suspended.

The video was posted 19 hours ago.

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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anyone have more info on the group that makes these videos ? seems like they make decoy accounts and pretend to be underage targets but would like to learn more about their process: are they legit or would it be equivalent to police entrapment ?

Fun fact: 99% of the people who think something is entrapment have no idea what "entrapment" means. If the cops leave a car running with the keys in it, and you steal it, that's not entrapment. If someone says in a forum "hey I'm 13 and I like dinosaurs" and you start messaging them about touching peepees and such: not entrapment. The cases involving entrapment and terrorism charges, for example, have been largely bu…

for sure, thanks for the reply. i meant something like "is the group doing anything to initiate or solicit contact, or a relationship, or do they only create an account and wait?" in your example there seems to be a line between initiating contact and an initiating an illegal act, and i'm curious which side of that line the investigators are on in this case

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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The article tries to make the story all about Facebook, when it basically just boils down to the fact that a (alleged, there is still due process required) pervert worked there. They didn't know about him, they weren't harboring him or anything, it's just a low level employee doing something inappropriate.

The head of global community development is a low level employee?

I made an assumption based on "manager" as his title. Usually they is way down in the hierarchy for big companies, I could be wrong in this case

Re: Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit admins themselves removing reposts? Seems unlikely. And sure, it’s #1 now. The point was that they were doing this as the story was unfolding. If you look at the timestamps, there’s a pretty big gap between the one at #1 and the one I linked. It’s pretty strange seeing admins remove a post like this. And a bunch of people are saying they saw the account get suspended.

The video was posted 19 hours ago.

Yep. And the one that was deleted by admins was posted over a day ago.

It now seems at least plausible that someone was trying to wipe this story, and lost.

At the time, users felt frustrated no one was covering this: https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/suq88j/...

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