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The line about the one founder taking a job with the DNC was enough for me, but I'm glad I read until this part because I think it's even more illuminating: >"
by colpabar 5y ago
The line about the one founder taking a job with the DNC was enough for me, but I'm glad I read until this part because I think it's even more illuminating:
>"Frances is exposing a lot of the knobs in the machine that is a modern social media platform," Massachi said. "Now that people know that those knobs exist, we can start having a conversation about what is the science of how these work, what these knobs do and why you would want to turn them in which direction."
Which I translated to:
>Now that someone else has broken their NDA, we can use our jobs that we are not quitting to make more money.
- zasz 5y agoI don't know about Jeff, but I know Sahar quit working at Facebook over a year ago to work on this instead.
- sayhar 5y agoYep! We both quit FB in 2019. This has been our (full time, volunteer, spending our savings) job since ~Jan/Feb of this year. It's taken a long time to gather people, build trust, figure out our strategy, find consensus, make our first reports, etc.