Post ACkUTJEt33ftJdFmpE by mplammers@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #ACjNy2UAUgE5Um9Cdc by rysiek@mastodon.technology
2021-10-25T18:12:30Z
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Pressure works:> "Facebook is extremely thinly staffed ... and this is because there are a lot of technologists that look at what Facebook has done and their unwillingness to accept responsibility, and people just aren't willing to work there," Haugen saidhttps://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/25/tech/facebook-papers/index.html#Facebook
(DIR) Post #ACjOGdMa7eFZ58SvOC by thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com
2021-10-25T18:21:54.151856Z
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@rysiek Joe Biden only got in office thanks to them flipping the election by disinformation, and money pushed to select counties to flip swing state. The world would be a better place if facebook didn't exist. That's all before getting into lesser known things the censorship of gardening groups and child trafficking on the platform.
(DIR) Post #ACjTqRPkWc3aDcqBwe by meena@cathode.church
2021-10-25T19:09:51Z
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@rysiek The good news for Facebook: Haugen, and the team supporting her, aren't aiming to shut down or break up the company. During her Senate testimony, Haugen repeatedly told lawmakers that she was there because she believes in Facebook's potential for good,but... i don't!shut it down now!nationalise it in the Global South, where their "Free" Basics is the defacto internet.
(DIR) Post #ACjTqTbAP8NUzcCL1E by meena@cathode.church
2021-10-25T19:12:06Z
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@rysiek also:"40,000 people working on the safety and security on our platform, including 15,000 people who review content in more than 70 languages working in more than 20 locations all across the world to support our community."what a joke.what kinda ratio is that, when you have between 1-3 billion users?
(DIR) Post #ACjYUIKs69WvSgoncu by rune@mcd.dk
2021-10-25T19:13:06Z
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@meena @rysiek the bare minimum to not get sued or regulated, of course.
(DIR) Post #ACjYUIyDjr0PQjEDxY by FediFollows@mastodon.online
2021-10-25T19:35:52Z
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@rune @meena @rysiek ...and presumably there's also an unpublished amount of fees, "electoral services", future job offers etc being given to various nations' politicians in order to prevent regulation.
(DIR) Post #ACjYUJUTnuoH2mJzF2 by rune@mcd.dk
2021-10-25T19:36:41Z
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@FediFollows @meena @rysiek I'm not sure if the US congress was intelligent enough to require bribes during last hearing.
(DIR) Post #ACjYUK0NtIKYdjFSyG by FediFollows@mastodon.online
2021-10-25T19:41:40Z
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@rune @meena @rysiek Facebook already have a UK deputy prime minister as a Vice President 😫 He's the British guy you may have seen defending Facebook on the media recently.Would not be surprised if we see more lawmakers taking jobs there (or at Google, or Amazon, or Apple etc etc) in the future.There are so many fields where this happens: lawmakers/regulators do a weak job, retire, then go to highly paid job in the sector they were supposed to regulate. But this obviously isn't a bribe...
(DIR) Post #ACjh5d0J13ubuYVmvA by warpgate9@mastodon.social
2021-10-25T21:46:39Z
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@thendrix @rysiek Got it a bit backwards there. Hey, doesn't Trump have his own masto instance now you can fuck off to?
(DIR) Post #ACjh5dg8VXNA0I5C7c by thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com
2021-10-25T21:52:46.180248Z
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@warpgate9 @rysiek I didn't say anything about Trump, but I guess you can't get him out of your head. Try to live in present, and pull your head out of your ass and tongue off the boot.Zuckerberg pumped $500M personally into elections in key counties. Including illegal ballot collection practices such as bundled ballot collection outside of state control: eg ballot boxes with no chain of custody, voting on buses not run by the state, etc. It's a matter of fact and court documents back it up. Facebook blocked news such as Hunter's laptop, and any talk of Biden's history from his "jungle" comments and various outtakes from 1988.
(DIR) Post #ACkEdmnUPNNScMPdT6 by doctormo@mastodon.social
2021-10-25T22:26:52Z
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@meena @rysiek If this was the fediverse, we'd have the power to self-police problematic content. The lack of freedom for users to have the tools needed to create a minimum social conduct is a serious error.
(DIR) Post #ACkR2xlbxWqPKTJ0vw by warpgate9@mastodon.social
2021-10-26T06:21:36Z
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@thendrix @rysiek Zuck did nothing to support Biden, he's very much a known Trump guy. But yeah, you did not have to say anything about the orange shitburger because there were only two candidates.
(DIR) Post #ACkR2yIvxdV0zotcsC by thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com
2021-10-26T06:27:44.895823Z
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@warpgate9 @rysiek Don't let the truth and vast evidence to the contrary change your mind. Biden supporters aren't worth my time.
(DIR) Post #ACkUTJEt33ftJdFmpE by mplammers@fosstodon.org
2021-10-25T19:52:29Z
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@FediFollows State surveillance and targeted ads require the same telemetry.Facebook (and the like) provide (often involuntary) mass surveillance services. In return many regimes turn a blind eye, undermine their citizen's digital rights.@rune @meena @rysiek
(DIR) Post #ACkaFdb1AFjg7eT9fs by lordbowlich@hackers.town
2021-10-25T22:49:39Z
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@meena @rysiek https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly-active-facebook-users-worldwide/This says Facebook claims that 3.51 billion users use at least one of it's products.Back of the book, town has 2 moderators for 300 users or roughly moderator per dunbar. Seems fair. So if Facebook had the same ratio of moderators as town, it would need to keep 23 million moderators on staff.
(DIR) Post #ACn9IENjkcRRcJ5z6G by dredmorbius@toot.cat
2021-10-27T02:58:03Z
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@rysiek My response to FB recruiters for years has been "Tell Mark 'Fuck you' personally for me."
(DIR) Post #ACn9IF15OJuvaLVPQu by dredmorbius@toot.cat
2021-10-27T02:59:19Z
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@rysiek As I've noted, there are two reasons FB pays what it does:It can.It has to.For those working at FB, we know what price you put on your soul and sense of humanity.
(DIR) Post #ACn9IFT5iCJozCbm5I by loke@functional.cafe
2021-10-27T04:24:30Z
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@dredmorbius @rysiek someone actually contacted me from Facebook asking if I wanted to interview for them. They must really be getting desperate.
(DIR) Post #ACn9IFwVwnr2SSNGwi by Shamar@qoto.org
2021-10-27T13:52:55Z
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@lokeSo you mean it wasn't a phishing attempt?If so, I guess they wrote a bot to annoy every programmer on github or something... because someone from #Facebook mailed ME too.And I mean... me.One who hate #JS whole heartly and think #React is a #DoS against all of us to distract from their business model and make us forget #CambridgeAnalytica.A bot from #Google wouldn't have wasted such bandwidth... but from Facebook... they are just spammers on steroids.@dredmorbius @rysiek
(DIR) Post #ACnBGpDG2jRNAveRY8 by loke@functional.cafe
2021-10-27T14:15:06Z
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@Shamar @dredmorbius @rysiek I don't think so, his email address was fb.com, and the email itself didn't contain anything that could be a phishing attempt.Now, I never replied so it's certainly possible it was phishing. But, the hypothesis that they are desperate sounds more entertaining.Perhaps I should have replied and said I prefer to work for someone with more morals, like phillip morris.
(DIR) Post #ACnDh7Ay4yCYKAFBdw by Shamar@qoto.org
2021-10-27T14:42:14Z
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@lokeOne might argue that having a job there is a good way to kill the monster from the inside, through leaks, bugs and so on...But to me the risk I could somehow help them is too disgusting.@dredmorbius @rysiek
(DIR) Post #ACnPCeyXYutVcmfwK8 by Davide_Sandini@mastodon.uno
2021-10-27T16:51:11Z
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@ShamarIt' like say "kill a tyrannosaurus from inside letting he eat you... " not a smart plan, the exit is from the wrong side....@loke @dredmorbius @rysiek
(DIR) Post #ACninclIeYsmbRp0pk by Shamar@qoto.org
2021-10-27T20:30:47Z
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@Davide_SandiniGood points. 🤣@loke @dredmorbius @rysiek