Facebook internal memo leaked - pushing growth at any cost, even death
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data? utm_term=.nxMAAXa5a#.wtObbarwr
Ignore that it's Buzzfeed, the content is important.
On June 18, 2016, one of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s most trusted lieutenants circulated an extraordinary memo weighing the costs of the company’s relentless quest for growth.
“We connect people. Period. That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it,” VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth wrote.
“So we connect more people,” he wrote in another section of the memo. “That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies.
“Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.”
The explosive internal memo is titled “The Ugly,” and has not been previously circulated outside the Silicon Valley social media giant.
We live in like the shittiest cyberpunk timeline
The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it,
That's pretty fucking ominous considering what we know of China's extreme surveillance.
That's just deplorable. The respect for human integrity just flies out the window.
Facebook is a deviantart sonic fanart page
How about Facebook pushes growth at the cost of being a decent service
Not a domestic android, flying car, or holographic naked woman dominating the sky-line in sight. This IS the worst cyberpunk timeline.
I can't turn myself into a cat girl with a giant frog tongue earlier like come on at LEAST let me have that
Wtf hahaha "it's important to consider bad ideas like this one"
This is the "but I was only being racist ironically" excuse you often see on YouTube.
I stopped using facespace a long time ago, its a terrible landfill of boring friends and lame family members posting pointless garbage among the cacophony of trash memes and political arguments. And now I have noticed more and more in-video overlay ads on youtube pushing facebook where I haven't seen them before. Growth over everything huh...
That doesnt make as much money as selling all the data they collect.
We get it, you're enlightened far above the average person. Your tipping hand get sore often?
It's because we live in a Clancy-verse - which is the most boring-verse of all.
Jesus dude. I get it, Facebook is trash, but this post is borderline /r/IAmVerySmart.
Buzzfeed News has a lot of top-tier investigative journalism, all of which is funded by the clickbait trash. It's a legit source.
He's too smart for friends and family tbh you guys are just too stupid to understand a true gentleman of higher intellect
Oh man the linked facebook comments at the bottom of the article are a really interesting anthill full of crazy.
https://imgur.com/a/HlcgL
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