Facebook is having a hard time. The Cambridge Analytica Scandal has caused their stock to plummet over 15% With TV shows, magazines and websites training thousands how to navigate around the scam Facebook privacy settings to protect their data, Facebook will incur considerable expense to change their code to get that data back. In the meantime, Facebook have claimed that they had no idea their data was being misused, but new proof just surfaced that they are lying about that too.
On June 18, 2016, one of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s most trusted lieutenants circulated an extraordinary memo weighing the costs of the company’s relentless quest for growth.
“We connect people. Period. That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it,” VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth wrote.
“So we connect more people,” he wrote in another section of the memo. “That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies.
“Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.”
The explosive internal memo is titled “The Ugly,” and has not been previously circulated outside the Silicon Valley social media giant.
The Bosworth memo reveals the extent to which Facebook’s leadership understood the physical and social risks the platform’s products carried — even as the company downplayed those risks in public. It suggests that senior executives had deep qualms about conduct that they are now seeking to defend. And as the company reels amid a scandal over improper outside data collection on its users, the memo shows that one senior executive — one of Zuckerberg’s longest-serving deputies — prioritized all-encompassing growth over all else, a view that has led to questionable data collection and manipulative treatment of its users… [emphasis added]
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See? They knew all along that what they were doing would hurt the users that they fooled into trusting them. They recognized that after their tactics are outlawed here, assuming Republicans are removed from power, they will need to employ those scams from China. Even subjecting the entire nation to Trump was less important to them than their greed.
With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play!
UNPLUG!!
RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!
Facebook is part of the Republican Reich!
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Someone who could develop a platform that could serve the good functions for indigenous peoples world wide but which they could control and keep it, if not totally safe, at least safer then Facebook, would be doing the entire world a great service. I won’t be holding my breath. Sigh.
Must people do not mind having non-intimate interests served to advertisers, and a company could make a fair profit doing just that, but scamming for everything generates a much BIGGER profit!
Good to know… Passing this to friends too!! Thanks, Tom.
If you have a Facebook account, I recommend the following: Close it down for good!
All companies, IT or social platforms included, that took their business to the stock market had one thing only on their mind: to make as much money as possible. So why did anybody ever think Facebook was any different? Just because Zuckerberg still dresses like a adolescent doesn’t mean he’s a saint and neither are any of his executives.
A lot of people are now shutting their FB accounts down, but many do not realize that their data will still be there (FB doesn’t delete it, you just can’t get to it any more) and any data that has been mined will still be going around the internet for years to come. We need far better regulation right now, but in fact we needed that a decade ago, before things got completely out of hand.
And shutting down their FB account now may not do many foreigners visiting the US who need to apply for a visa much good either:
So if this gets through, Facebook and Twitter get away with not deleting your data after you close your account; in fact they may be prohibited from doing so. If not, you can rest assured the NSA will have a copy of everything you have done in the past five years on the internet. And the NSA never had any leaks, right?
GROWTH = GREED
How Republican!!!
Don’t expect Republicans to support regulation of social media. After all, the Bully-in-Chief, aka Twitler, uses social media to bully and goad people.
Thanks all. Very tired hugs!
Damn!