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Agreed with the cowardice. But I think it worked both ways. It was pretty clear that Facebook (and a lot of other industries) also took on a lot of practices th

Agreed with the cowardice. But I think it worked both ways. It was pretty clear that Facebook (and a lot of other industries) also took on a lot of practices that they clearly didn't believe in either. DEI was taken up performatively for political reasons. We cannot be upset when it is removed performatively for political reason. And we have to be honest that these programs were largely failures. Fact checking especially. Even performatively, these companies took on pretty big responsibilities, only garnered more criticism and controversy, gained nothing, and after years of plugging away had no light at the end of the tunnel.

grajaganDev 2y ago
Sandberg was pushing DEI long before 2020. And I don't think she was being performative. Agreed about the cringe cowardice.
ffsm8 2y ago
> Fact checking especially It's very confusing to me that pretty much nobody takes what Zuck said in that interview at face value. It's entirely possible he thought that doing fact checks is a good approach in the context of the beginning of Corona - and then find out how borderline impossible such an approach is in practice and consequently change his opinion on doing it...
davidguetta 2y ago
I mean it's also pretty arrogant and/or delusional to say that in his place, as a businessman, you would have been making a big stand against an entire US presidential administration.. Entities with that kind of attitude usually don't grow to the size facebook is. The biden administration using backchannels to pressure social media instead of being transparent about it are the one to MAINLY criticize. Zuckerberg is just another businessman speaking in whatever press relases will be best at that moment, but obeyed people he kinda HAD to obey at the end of the day. In general when the men with guns (here the law) speak, you listen

grajaganDev 2y ago

Sandberg was pushing DEI long before 2020. And I don't think she was being performative. Agreed about the cringe cowardice.

ffsm8 2y ago

> Fact checking especially It's very confusing to me that pretty much nobody takes what Zuck said in that interview at face value. It's entirely possible he thought that doing fact checks is a good approach in the context of the beginning of Corona - and then find out how borderline impossible such an approach is in practice and consequently change his opinion on doing it...

davidguetta 2y ago

I mean it's also pretty arrogant and/or delusional to say that in his place, as a businessman, you would have been making a big stand against an entire US presidential administration.. Entities with that kind of attitude usually don't grow to the size facebook is. The biden administration using backchannels to pressure social media instead of being transparent about it are the one to MAINLY criticize. Zuckerberg is just another businessman speaking in whatever press relases will be best at that moment, but obeyed people he kinda HAD to obey at the end of the day. In general when the men with guns (here the law) speak, you listen