Facebook Employment Ethics

how do employees of Facebook reading this justify their employment?

Remember, if you work for FB, you are part of the problem.

Remember, if you work for FB, you are part of the problem.

Those who work at Facebook, of which there are many on HN: how do you justify or rationalize your employer engaging in behavior like this?

if you are working for facebook then you are part of the problem.

If you work for FB, you are part of the problem.

Facebook engineers lurking on HN reading this: you are complicit in things like this by developing the technical infrastructure that makes it all possible. If your motivation is money, you can absolutely find that employment elsewhere.

How can you still work at Facebook with a clear conscience?

I think the blame is misplaced. People work at Facebook because they offer among the highest salaries, and are insulated enough from the bad PR to not feel bad about it.It is hard to understand the breadth of scope of the FAANGs. You read in the newspaper that Google exists to turn over dissidents to the Chinese government, but there are plenty of engineers working on making the Linux kernel more secure, or providing gigabit internet for $79/month. Should those engineers quit and go w

It's ironic that these people who consider or signal(if you're cynical) virtue through their jobs completely ignore the larger picture.Facebook is a cesspool which wants to lock people in the web into a single monopoly. And worse it is to prey on the users attention by dealing cognitive equivalent of drug hits.Where were these woke engineers when Zuck tried to push his drug into developing nations in ruse of "free internet", or inumerable other breach of user trust and