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At facebook's size and for the duration that lie was told, no, that's inexcusable. That's a knew or should have know territory - they were pushing a new featur
by hobs 2y ago
At facebook's size and for the duration that lie was told, no, that's inexcusable.
That's a knew or should have know territory - they were pushing a new feature, they lied about the impact of the new feature, they changed the industry around it and wasted billions of dollars. Later this was called "a bug" - seems beyond convenient for facebook when you know, double checking that type of thing is usually a big deal for advertisers.
- disgruntledphd2 2y agoWhen this happened, Facebook was a much, much smaller company. They made the decision around pushing videos before this code was written, because of the engagement of videos on Facebook and Instagram. Source: I was there, and tangentially involved in this
- hobs 2y agoAh yes, 1.5B users, absolutely tiny :) When my company made a mistake that cost our customers 750k, we fell on our sword and recouped them the cost. We had 11k users at the time :)
- disgruntledphd2 2y ago> Ah yes, 1.5B users, absolutely tiny :) I meant in terms of employees. About 4.5k in my recall, for running FB, IG and Whatsapp, as well as all of the ads products.