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Asked about the delisting, a Facebook spokesperson said that “a number of the studies have been archived, but they’re still available at the individual links.”
by cctt23 9y ago
Asked about the delisting, a Facebook spokesperson said that “a number of the studies have been archived, but they’re still available at the individual links.” Asked why the “Government and Politics” section had been removed entirely, the spokesperson did not reply.
I’ll just bet they didn’t. “We’re covering our ass like it’s on fire” is probably a bad PR, move, but it’s painfully obvious that’s what’s happening. The funny thing is they’re hurting themselves even more with half-baked apologies. They’re going back to the playbook they’ve used for the last dozen scandals, but this is different.
Facebook the company might survive this, but Facebook the social network is going to die.
- trophycase 9y agoThat spokesperson should be ashamed of themselves. Absolutely disgusting.
- mwilliaams 9y agoThey're just doing their job. It's company leadership that should be ashamed.
- politician 9y agoSome people don't believe folks are let off the hook because they are "just following orders." Other people believe that following orders lets people off the hook. We see this over and over again in every discussion about corporate malfeasance (not to mention war). It appears you're of the latter mindset while the parent is of the former. Consider not down voting what amounts to a legitimate philosophical difference.
- boomboomsubban 9y agoIf they don't follow orders, than there's no statement as opposed to no reply on that issue. The spokesperson's job is to tell the public what they're told to, they likely don't have the information to answer that question if they wanted to.
- mwilliaams 9y agoI would say I'm in the middle. It depends on how unethical/bad the orders are.
- sho_hn 9y agoNah. People outside our bubble don't care.
- dingo_bat 9y agoI bet half the people inside the bubble don't care. I don't care, for example.
- surferbayarea 9y agoYou don't care, doesn't mean you SHOULD not care. Public apathy from smart people was probably behind what happened in 1930s Germany.
- tcpabc123 9y agozuckerberg is raised jewish don't throw around nazi facebook comparisons you're better than that
- ekianjo 9y agono, that is not really what happened in 30s germany. You had a country in deep economical crisis, and huge political fight for power. Smart people were far from passive, on the contrary they took sides.
- duncan_bayne 9y agoApathy? A lot of smart people were active supporters of the National Socialists, at least before they started losing the war. The Ominous Parallels[1] explores this, and the parallels with current American politics: The Nazis did not gain power against the country’s wishes…The Nazi party was elected to office by the freely cast ballots of millions of German voters, including men on every social, economic, and educational level. In the national election of July 1932, the Nazis obtained 37 percent of the vote and a plurality of seats in the Reichstag. On January 30, 1933, in full accordance with the country’s legal and constitutional principles, Hitler was appointed Chancellor. Five weeks later, in the last (and semi-free) election of the pre-totalitarian period, the Nazis obtained 17 million votes, 44 percent of the total… In 1933, when Hitler did establish the system he had promised, he did not find it necessary to forbid foreign travel. Until World War II, those Germans who wished to flee the country could do so. The overwhelming majority did not. They were satisfied to remain… [1] https://www.amazon.com/Ominous-Parallels-End-Freedom-America/dp/081282850X https://www.amazon.com/Ominous-Parallels-End-Freedom-America...