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What an embarrassing place to work.

• russellbeattie 4y ago
  I feel zero sympathy for any employee of Facebook. The company is literally the primary source of misinformation and disinformation on the internet and the people working there all benefit from it. Early on, they may not have realized what a propaganda machine they were creating, but for the past half decade they all have been turning a blind eye to the problem, or implementing dark patterns under the pretense of "increasing user engagement" and making it worse. Why can't I filter my feed to strip out news items and only see personal updates and photos? Why isn't news in it's own section, like groups, marketplace, etc.? Why is disinformation labeled, rather than hidden by default? Why is violent content ignored, yet a nipple will get your account banned? Why can't I simply pay money and turn off ads? Why can't I set my feeds to chronological order permanently? Why can't I turn off suggested content? Why isn't the profile information and interests I explicitly entered respected rather than being solely based on AI analysis of my activity? They literally have no excuses. If they're eating their own and demoralizing the rest? Great.
  • joezydeco 4y ago
    The real question is why it takes 85,000 employees to make Facebook do so little.
  • yunohn 4y ago
    > they may not have realized what a propaganda machine they were creating Do you also despise news organisations, magazines, and so on? Or are they deliberately propaganda, so it’s excusable?
    • russellbeattie 4y ago
      Someone remind me, is this sort of comment a straw man, false equivalence, ad hominem, ad absurdum, Just Asking Questions or some another term? I can't remember. Maybe all the above? I guess this is just how some people rationalize unethical behavior.