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Peaceful Protest Hasn’t Worked and Has Been Met With Aggression.
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A list of ethnic slurs on Indians that should be banned on Blind
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Faang Engineers who got laid off, how long did it take to get a new job?
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What happens when most of your team is Indian?
Max Wang, a Boston-based software engineer who was leaving Facebook after more than seven years, shared a video on the company’s internal discussion board that was meant to serve as a warning. “I think Facebook is hurting people at scale,” he wrote in a note accompanying the video. “If you think so too, maybe give this a watch.” https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-employee-leaks-show-they-feel-betrayed
“Eng who created and profited tools that he describes as ‘hurting people at scale’ absconds to FB-funded mansion” FB is dedicating serious resources, perhaps the most in the world, to trying to solve these problems. This looks like remorseful virtue signaling to me. Many passionate people believe we’re doing good.
Is there any product Facebook makes that doesn’t benefit advertisers more than users?
Facebook has had a serious number of controversies but refuses to change. It's ok to criticize a company that you work for. In fact it's necessary if you want to improve it.
Who leaked this...
Same kind of person who made it
He’s just going on a vacation. Chill, everyone
I wonder if he’s employable now. Maybe he doesn’t care
Why not? The dude that publicly shamed another fb employee over BLM stuff got hired in a beat after getting fired
I don’t agree/disagree with the guy here. He’s voiced his opinions and that is his right. The problem I notice in this whole discussion though is that everyone thinks their point of view or opinion is supreme and right. These are complex problems never solved at this scale. Facebook has fucked up many a time. I don’t debate that at all. But don’t pretend like you have all the answers and that they’re all right. Cause they’re not. Maintaining a neutral platform is as important as preventing hate speech and misinformation. Getting to the right balance is a long journey. But pretending you’re better than everyone and empty virtue signaling ain’t going to get anyone anywhere.
Most of the hate speech and misinformation comes from political campaigns that can afford to buy mega ads on your platform. Normal people like you and me posting a political post would never reach the timeline of billions of people and influence them. Facebook doesn't have the guts to cut off that huge revenue stream. Also in order to improve ROI and conversion rate of your ads, you recklessly use peoples social graph to target audiences. You get Donald trump ads because your classmate from 10 years ago loves Trump? What the heck! You can track a users activity inside your platform and use them to target ads but don't use social graph to brainwash people and create social bubbles. Why not build your ad system by not using social graph?. Because conversion rate of ads would plummet and you don't want that.
You exactly prove my point. Every sentence of yours is so assertive that you think you know the answer. Maybe you’re right or maybe not. I would argue that the “Hillary runs a pedophile ring” article chain did more damage than any Trump ad. Again do I know if I’m right? No. But everyone involved in this discussion seems to think they know everything and they’re always right. There is not going to be any fruitful steps forward until this attitude changes.
WTF. It’s buzzfeed. Not clicking on that
buzzfeednews and buzzfeed are completely different. one is an org that has won pulitzers. the other is... buzzfeed.
Buzzfeed News is a high quality news source with high quality journalism.. look it up.
I’m at the last stage of interviewing at FB and this is definitely my largest concern. I don’t know what the right answers are here, it’s a complicated question when an actual president is engaging in this kind of rhetoric. It’s certainly newsworthy and I’m not sure it’s for the best to censor it. The Australian white supremacy ad seems like a much simpler case. At any rate, I’m heartened by the dissent at FB and that the company seems to make plenty of space for these concerns to be shared. It’d be nice if there was a more substantial plan put in place to address it, though.
Just another crybaby with TDS who's mad that Zuck is taking steps to ensure this company can maintain a tiny shred of a pretense of neutrality. If Cambridge Analytica had helped Hillary no one would have minded in the slightest. If Mark announced today that we were outright banning anyone with a pro-Trump ad or post from our platform, this sad little chump and his compatriots would be popping bottles of champagne and begging to have his children. The reality is that when Joe Biden is elected this November, all of these concern trolls will go back to cashing checks and talking about how Facebook is the greatest company ever. Nothing to see here.
Nice - what flavor was the kool aid?
If the corrupt Russian government was spying on and hacking American citizens’ emails, Hillary most certainly wouldn’t have encouraged and hid that from the FBI. Your what if is ridiculous and Trump is a traitor. Just ask the families of the soldiers killed for bounties he ignores.
It’s all about the TC. Until it’s time to virtue signal.
Hit the nail on the head.
Any criticism is now "virtue signalling".
Why TF people stay at FB for so long when they have these *concerns*?
Because his concerns aren't real. He's just virtue signaling with a zero-risk post and farming likes on the way out
Exactly this ^
Can't view the linked content
Seems like copying the link to chrome worked
When clicked the lick, it seemed that Instagram run temporarily, showing the content in a flash, then display there is no internet connection. The link works fine if I copy and paste the link to browser. Can anyone tell me how Instagram intercepted the click in Blind?