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Sure, let's start with the testimony of whistle blower Frances Haugen: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/10/05/technology/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen
by bb88 5y ago
Sure, let's start with the testimony of whistle blower Frances Haugen:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/10/05/technology/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/10/05/technology/facebook-...
There's a lot to unpack, but the NYTimes does a pretty good job of it.
Then there's the ugliness of Rohingya:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-...
Then there's the ugliness of Russian Trolls.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook-troll-farms-report-us-2020-election/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook...
Then there's the whole if you're not paying for a product, then you are the product.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/facebook-10-billion-apple-privacy-push https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/facebook-10-billion-appl...
There was cambridge analytica:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/25/facebook-ignored-staff-warnings-about-sketchy-cambridge-analytica-in-september-2015/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/25/facebook-ignored-staff-war...
There was the Iranian Trolls:
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-twitter-eye-iran-fake-account-crackdown/ https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-twitter-eye-iran-fake-a...
Then there's the NFT crap they're pushing:
https://www.ft.com/content/2745d50b-36e4-4c0a-abe0-e93f035b0628 https://www.ft.com/content/2745d50b-36e4-4c0a-abe0-e93f035b0...
FB Misled Congress in their role in the insurrection:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/business/january-6-insurrection-facebook-papers/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/business/january-6-insurrecti...
FB treated celebrities one way and regular people another
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-files-xcheck-zuckerberg-elite-rules-11631541353?mod=article_inline https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-files-xcheck-zuckerber...
When employees approached Mark Zuckerberg the algorithm was making people angrier, he refused to make changes because engagement was critical above all else.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-algorithm-change-zuckerberg-11631654215?mod=article_inline https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-algorithm-change-zucke...
When employees alerted management about human trafficking, FB did little or nothing to stop it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-drug-cartels-human-traffickers-response-is-weak-documents-11631812953?mod=article_inline https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-drug-cartels-human-tra...
FB explored ways to get pre-teens hooked on the platform.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-instagram-kids-tweens-attract-11632849667?mod=article_inline https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-instagram-kids-tweens-...
Finally: here's a good article about FB. They shut down the facial recognition software after China used it to identify the Uyghurs from their population. US law enforcement used it to arrest people who just looked like the people they were going after. Still bad, but you know it only took 10 years of complaining about it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/technology/facebook-facial-recognition.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/technology/facebook-facia...
And I'm pretty sure there's maybe at least another 2x of where that came from.
Edited to add:
> Not only would Facebook not go away, but even if they did, the replacement wouldn’t be better.
This is not a perfect analogy, but hopefully you get the point.
If you clean up trash in your town, does that mean the trash that replaces it is worse? No. It's just more of the regular old trash.
But the question is, what signal does it send to those that want to dump blocks worth of trash in your town if you don't clean up the trash in your town?
- blitzar 5y ago> If you clean up trash in your town, does that mean the trash that replaces it is worse? Hopefully the new trash wont stink as much.