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'How the Hell Did Document Leak?' – Meta Internal Mail After a News Report

throwaway384629 4y ago
Some context: Yesterday an Indian news site reported that "If India's Ruling Party IT Head report a post, Meta will take it down right away without any question." [1] [2] Today's news is about how Meta's staff is acting in response to that report. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33152394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33152394 [2] https://thewire.in/tech/amit-malviya-instagram-meta-xcheck https://thewire.in/tech/amit-malviya-instagram-meta-xcheck
salawat 4y ago
States use centralized services to facilitate perception management. Centralized services only too happy to comply. More at 11.
jjk166 4y ago
Well I guess now they know the leaker is somebody on that mailing list.
retIghke 4y ago
Surely Meta sees the irony in being frustrated that people want to broadcast your words and actions to the world. The people are now "more connected" to what is going on after all.
nsenifty 4y ago
The email is fake. The sender (along with most meta employees) now has a @meta.com address.
sfashset 4y ago
Yeah what makes this story interesting is that these emails and leak are (largely) fabricated. See https://twitter.com/swodinsky/status/1579847763499847681?s=46&t=O4AZHqkVbnSHapsWyXwnNg https://twitter.com/swodinsky/status/1579847763499847681?s=4... another giveaway is the missing article in the headline quote - very common with Indian speakers of English, very rare for a Western speaker.
- nyx 4y ago
  And the email purported to have been written by Andy Stone (who does not seem to be Indian) is rife with indicators that it was written by an Indian English speaker: * How the hell <report> got leaked? (non-standard conjugation) * Why didn't anyone of you bother... ("anyone" for "any one") * Put <names> on watchlist. (dropped article) * Send me ... for last one month. (dropped article)
  - duskwuff 4y ago
    I'd add that "link me up" isn't a standard idiom in American English -- a US speaker would probably say "send me the link" or "link me to it".
    - soulofmischief 4y ago
      I believe proper American parlance is "I'mma need the link". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwBEpjOwbpM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwBEpjOwbpM
      - feet 4y ago
        Where the link at
    - prvit 4y ago
      Pretty sure that’s a common expression (in American English too) referring not to URLs but making contact with people. “Why didn’t anyone bother to put me in touch” is how I’d interpret it.
      - duskwuff 4y ago
        While "to link up" is an idiom in American English, "to link <someone> up" is not. The phrase is intransitive -- even if the referent were a person, one would usually say "to link up with <someone>". Moreover, the phrase implies a casual social encounter, which wouldn't be appropriate here; a more formal introduction would be implied by a phrase like "get me in touch".
deveshz 4y ago
The Wire's reply: Apart from Meta's 'fabrication' charge, some folks are saying The Wire may have been 'played' by unknown elements out to 'discredit' us or further some outlandish conspiracy. This is ridiculous. Our stories came from multiple Meta sources—whom we know, have met & verified https://twitter.com/svaradarajan/status/1580069016387092482 https://twitter.com/svaradarajan/status/1580069016387092482

Some context: Yesterday an Indian news site reported that "If India's Ruling Party IT Head report a post, Meta will take it down right away without any question." [1] [2] Today's news is about how Meta's staff is acting in response to that report. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33152394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33152394 [2] https://thewire.in/tech/amit-malviya-instagram-meta-xcheck https://thewire.in/tech/amit-malviya-instagram-meta-xcheck

salawat 4y ago

States use centralized services to facilitate perception management. Centralized services only too happy to comply. More at 11.

jjk166 4y ago

Well I guess now they know the leaker is somebody on that mailing list.

retIghke 4y ago

Surely Meta sees the irony in being frustrated that people want to broadcast your words and actions to the world. The people are now "more connected" to what is going on after all.

nsenifty 4y ago

The email is fake. The sender (along with most meta employees) now has a @meta.com address.

sfashset 4y ago

Yeah what makes this story interesting is that these emails and leak are (largely) fabricated. See https://twitter.com/swodinsky/status/1579847763499847681?s=46&t=O4AZHqkVbnSHapsWyXwnNg https://twitter.com/swodinsky/status/1579847763499847681?s=4... another giveaway is the missing article in the headline quote - very common with Indian speakers of English, very rare for a Western speaker.

nyx 4y ago
And the email purported to have been written by Andy Stone (who does not seem to be Indian) is rife with indicators that it was written by an Indian English speaker: * How the hell <report> got leaked? (non-standard conjugation) * Why didn't anyone of you bother... ("anyone" for "any one") * Put <names> on watchlist. (dropped article) * Send me ... for last one month. (dropped article)
- duskwuff 4y ago
  I'd add that "link me up" isn't a standard idiom in American English -- a US speaker would probably say "send me the link" or "link me to it".
  - soulofmischief 4y ago
    I believe proper American parlance is "I'mma need the link". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwBEpjOwbpM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwBEpjOwbpM
    - feet 4y ago
      Where the link at
  - prvit 4y ago
    Pretty sure that’s a common expression (in American English too) referring not to URLs but making contact with people. “Why didn’t anyone bother to put me in touch” is how I’d interpret it.
    - duskwuff 4y ago
      While "to link up" is an idiom in American English, "to link <someone> up" is not. The phrase is intransitive -- even if the referent were a person, one would usually say "to link up with <someone>". Moreover, the phrase implies a casual social encounter, which wouldn't be appropriate here; a more formal introduction would be implied by a phrase like "get me in touch".

deveshz 4y ago

The Wire's reply: Apart from Meta's 'fabrication' charge, some folks are saying The Wire may have been 'played' by unknown elements out to 'discredit' us or further some outlandish conspiracy. This is ridiculous. Our stories came from multiple Meta sources—whom we know, have met & verified https://twitter.com/svaradarajan/status/1580069016387092482 https://twitter.com/svaradarajan/status/1580069016387092482