Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns
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Re: Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns
#2It's never too late to quit Facebook as a user, as a contractor, or an employee.
Better yet, become a whistleblower and leak to the press.
Re: Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns
#3> Facebook engineers are quitting or trying to transfer to Instagram or WhatsApp
I find trying to transfer into another product hilarious: it seems to me that they just don't want to have the stigma of working for "Facebook, the product", without really solving the issues working for "Facebook, the company".
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#4"Over Ethical Concerns"
Maybe over concerns that their department is in limbo due to the general public's concern, but I can't imagine they have been working on their projects and only now found ethical issues with them.
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#5I wonder how many new hires pass up Facebook because of ethical concerns. Whats scary is if even internally people are moving departments because of ethics, that basically filters so that the least ethical people are on the teams with the most ethical concerns.
If there's a real net effect on their hiring, they'll have to increase salaries to lure people in, which will take in even more unethical people (of course, not everyone that works for or wants to work for Facebook is unethical).
Re: Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns
#6"Over Ethical Concerns" Maybe over concerns that their department is in limbo due to the general public's concern, but I can't imagine they have been working on their projects and only now found ethical issues with them.
IDK, they may have ethical misgivings before but now find they have to rationalize these with their friends/family outside of the tech bubble. I'll cut them some slack until I know otherwise.
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#7This is sort of surprising information, from my view.
The information about their business model and data practices which people seem to be so surprised by was/is common knowledge among people who work with these technology stacks. Going to work for Facebook seemed like it would have meant supporting and abetting those practices; they were very clear about what they were doing, and the roles were in no way ambiguous.
The cynic in me wonders if these employees are just responding to how others are starting to view their positions, more than ethical or moral quandaries.
Re: Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns
#8c'mon wasn't it super obvious that they are doing that stuff already for years, the whole Cambridge Analytica isn't that suprising imho it's like starting at Uber now and think they're just a "normal" company...
Re: Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns
#9If it's anything like the rest of humanity, it's a handful of engineers who cares enough to switch. The rest of them will sit on their asses.
Re: Facebook Employees Are Quitting or Switching Departments Over Ethical Concerns
#10> Facebook engineers are quitting or trying to transfer to Instagram or WhatsApp I find trying to transfer into another product hilarious: it seems to me that they just don't want to have the stigma of working for "Facebook, the product", without really solving the issues working for "Facebook, the company".
WhatsApp and Instagram seem to be much more respected than Facebook proper right now, so it kind of makes sense. I also haven't noticed a decline in usage of these apps among my friends, but posts on Facebook itself have really dried up.