Facebook Whistleblower Memo
The cluster discusses a Facebook whistleblower's internal memo revealing political manipulation and privacy issues, with heavy skepticism about Facebook's honesty, responses, and track record of scandals like Cambridge Analytica.
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Facebook is probably lying about much more insidious things at this point
is it possible that fb got some heat from above, and forced to do that?
It sounds like it wasn't intentional, as Facebook has said they are looking into it, rather than putting out a post explaining their reasoning behind it.
Any closure on this? Did FB ever make amends? Surely there are some FB security employees on HN.
Facebook created this issue... now we're supposed to thank them for addressing it after it was revealed in public?
Based on the track record of other Facebook claims of the "we don't do X" type, this is basically proof that they do and/or did do both of these things. Maybe "accidentially" and "unintentionally" ;-)
What reporting about FB has been dishonest?
Please!! They knew of Facebook's bad privacy policies all this time. This is just an attempt by them to gain some good P.R., like this article.
Facebook says in a hn post that the article is wrong, but I have no real reason to trust Facebook, given their track record.
The root comment is literally a Facebook employee who is intentionally trying to change the narrative. An employee of a company that has been fined billions for privacy breaches, that was responsible for literal voter suppression https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations