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Facebook employs at least 115 people that formerly worked at FBI/CIA/NSA/DHS
- smoldesu 4y agoFacebook has ~40,000 employees last I checked. That's... not really surprising, even if it's a coincidence.
- xqcgrek2 4y agoIt is actually astonishingly high, given the number of employees in aggregate those agencies employ and turnover in a given year. I guarantee you a more pedestrian megacap tech company unrelated to information warfare (say, for instance, AMAT) will not have such a high number.
- jacquesm 4y agoDHS alone would plausibly explain that number. Personally I think it is rather low, maybe they missed something?
- hindsightbias 4y agoProfessionals were 59.8 percent of the total workforce in 2020, with 88.4 million people working across a wide variety of occupations. Agencies listed above currently employ ~250K (millions of former workers though). But lets be gracious and just count currents. 250K/88.4M = .0028 ~40K FB x .0028 = 112
- smoldesu 4y ago> given the number of employees in aggregate those agencies employ and turnover in a given year The US Federal government is the single largest employer in the US.
- cathdrlbizzare 4y ago110k staff total post-layoffs.
- jasonhansel 4y agoSo they...hired people with relevant experience? How is this a scandal?
- labrador 4y agoLike most of these try hard scandals, they fall apart if you apply even a small amount of critical thinking to them
- cathdrlbizzare 4y agoIt’s a conspiracy to watch me do laundry. I have evidence on a wall of random photos and newspaper clippings pinned together with yarn made from ugly sweaters’ red dryer lint. I think there’s a subset of people who make up and believe sinister intentions for a litany of motivations. It’s simpler than there being shitty situations large and small for no individual reason if there’s someone or something in particular to scapegoat.
- thinkcontext 4y agoGiven what we know about foreign intelligence attacks on social media companies is that surprising or alarming? For example, just recently a Twitter employee was convicted of providing confidential information to Saudi intelligence, probably to the same people that assassinated Jamal Khashoggi. And there are of course the influence networks.
- raxxorraxor 4y agoYes, I think that would be alarming. I believe foreign intelligence attacks are a conspiracy theory to what extend they are relevant.
- thinkcontext 4y agoThe effect is certainly debatable but all the social media sites report regularly report shutting down foreign networks.
- jacquesm 4y agoMaybe the money is better? And DHS is such a wide scoop, that could mean anything, they employ close to a quarter of a million people.
- strathmeyer 4y agoIs "government employees SHOULDN'T work in the private sector" somehow now a right-wing talking point?
- pipeline_peak 4y agoOkay and? Can we keep over opinionated conspiracy theories off this site…
- yucky 4y agoSpies work for private data gathering companies. More news at 11.