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This sounds really bad. In searching the web for this title it seems like small news services are running this. To be fair to Facebook, I am willing to wait a day and see what they and other organizations/news/people say about this disclosure.
I can see it in my least tech savvy, least educated friends. As Facebook users they seem to be radicalising the longer I leave them to the devices. But what’s the alternative? If people want family & friends social media, where to go? Aren’t the open/alternative platforms just as open to abusive, if not more so, as no-one like the whistleblower is even hired when it comes to open platforms?
This is so melodramatic, and a bit pretentious to think your Facebook job has such an effect on the world.
This is so melodramatic, and a bit pretentious to think your Facebook job has such an effect on the world.
This is so melodramatic, and a bit pretentious to think your Facebook job has such an effect on the world.
rohingya?
"“I have personally made decisions that affected national presidents without oversight, and taken action to enforce against so many prominent politicians globally that I’ve lost count,” she wrote." The scale of how the platform's being used for political manipulation in every country is enormous, and it's clear that if a junior data scientist is having to independently make these decisions, that there's little intere…
None of this would be important if social media gave us what they originally sold us: See updates from your friends, family, and people you want to see updates from, in chronological order, rather than based upon weird engagement algorithms and privacy-destroying ad networks.
Seriously though, their choices to run the platform the way they have were fundamentally shaped by profit and the stock market. The type of corporate moderation you’re suggesting doesn’t exist.