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"“I have personally made decisions that affected national presidents without oversight, and taken action to enforce against so many prominent politicians global
by strangeloops85 6y ago
"“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 interest in proactively dealing with this.
- swiley 6y agoWith real estate and rent so expensive a protest by a junior employee pretty much ends in moving back with their parents or homelessness.
- ummonk 6y agoNah. Even were I a junior employee, I could go work at any company offering a six figure salary and continue to live comfortably without roommates in SF. Rent is exorbitant but you still end up with half your post-tax software engineer salary as disposable income.
- Rebelgecko 6y agoFrom what I've seen of FB salaries, if an engineer is living paycheck to paycheck it's probably their own fault
- BurningFrog 6y agoI have real doubts about how big this power of individuals are. But if random FB engineers actually can affect global political power, it is 100% certain that the intelligence services of the world are putting serious efforts into placing their own people in these positions!
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