Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years–and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix It All
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#2A while ago, I questioned what was first. A decline in users or their algorithm changes.
The question still remains...
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#3"Then she told him that she had their messages on Gchat, which Fearnow had assumed weren’t accessible to Facebook."
I would like to know more about this.
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#4> On at least a couple of occasions, someone had crossed out the words “Black Lives Matter” and replaced them with “All Lives Matter.”
I really really dislike those "all lives matter" people.
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#5Hmmm "One current employee asked that a WIRED reporter turn off his phone so the company would have a harder time tracking whether it had been near the phones of anyone from Facebook."
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#6> On at least a couple of occasions, someone had crossed out the words “Black Lives Matter” and replaced them with “All Lives Matter.” I really really dislike those "all lives matter" people.
I feel like things went the wrong way with "Black Lives Matter". We were just on the crux of a "Police Accountability Matters" movement and then things went a different direction.
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#7"Then she told him that she had their messages on Gchat, which Fearnow had assumed weren’t accessible to Facebook." I would like to know more about this.
Came here to ask just this. Even if the journalist/contractor were being as sloppy as possible with netsec, HTTPS would protect traffic between browser and Google's servers. But I'm guessing a place like Facebook would have proxy servers that could be inspecting the traffic if it were done at work? But if the employee took screenshots and waited until they were home to send them, he'd be OK, right? The article says he did this from his personal laptop:
> So when Zuckerberg’s admonition circulated, a young contract employee named Benjamin Fearnow decided it might be newsworthy. He took a screenshot on his personal laptop and sent the image to a friend named Michael Nuñez, who worked at the tech-news site Gizmodo. Nuñez promptly published a brief story about Zuckerberg’s memo.
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#8"Then she told him that she had their messages on Gchat, which Fearnow had assumed weren’t accessible to Facebook." I would like to know more about this.
Came here to ask just this. Even if the journalist/contractor were being as sloppy as possible with netsec, HTTPS would protect traffic between browser and Google's servers. But I'm guessing a place like Facebook would have proxy servers that could be inspecting the traffic if it were done at work? But if the employee took screenshots and waited until they were home to send them, he'd be OK, right? The article says h…
You're thinking too much into it. They might just record the screen every few seconds and save it to their servers. There's software that does this easily.
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#9> On at least a couple of occasions, someone had crossed out the words “Black Lives Matter” and replaced them with “All Lives Matter.” I really really dislike those "all lives matter" people.
I feel like things went the wrong way with "Black Lives Matter". We were just on the crux of a "Police Accountability Matters" movement and then things went a different direction.
The same people that say "all lives matter" would be saying "You're undermining our cops therefore putting them in danger. You're literally getting cops killed."
The reason why the "all lives matter" people exist isn't because they're honestly misinterpreting the "black lives matter" message. They're dishonestly misinterpreting it. If you worded it differently they would find a different way to dishonestly misinterpret it.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Came here to ask just this. Even if the journalist/contractor were being as sloppy as possible with netsec, HTTPS would protect traffic between browser and Google's servers. But I'm guessing a place like Facebook would have proxy servers that could be inspecting the traffic if it were done at work? But if the employee took screenshots and waited until they were home to send them, he'd be OK, right? The article says h…
You're thinking too much into it. They might just record the screen every few seconds and save it to their servers. There's software that does this easily.
The story isn't completely specific on the chain of events, i.e. the sending of the screenshot on his personal laptop may have been done in addition to using GChat at work. But if he indeed was using his personal laptop at work (as many contractors do, though I can't speak for what it's like at Facebook), how is screen-recording software simpler than a proxy server? Aren't proxy servers used by corporate IT to screen incoming/outgoing traffic for possible malware?