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The #FacebookWhistleblower "talks about the moral failure of prioritizing profits over public safety. ...In America we tell our CEOs: Maximize profits. The result is companies have taken on business models that are dangerous." via @Moonalice @CuomoPrimeTime > #bospol (1/3)i
"It's not just that @Facebook tracks you everywhere, but that there's a giant economy of 3rd parties" trading & using "that data...to create 1st a model that allows them to use AI to predict your behavior then...to go out & make recommendations to manipulate your behavior" (2/3)
"The business model of @Facebook is designed to maximize attention at any cost. ... @instagram was designed from the beginning with filters to make people look better than they are in real life. Which is designed to provoke envy. Which causes people to spend money." (3/3)
New Facebook whistleblower shines light on algorithmic harms. The solution is privacy legislation that makes Facebook’s surveillance driven business model illegal. Congress can and should pass a privacy law strong enough to kill Facebook. #facebookdown #facebookwhistleblower
Last night, the whistleblower behind a series of Wall Street Journal articles about Facebook revealed herself in interviews with 60 minutes and a number of major news outlets. wsj.com/articles/the-f…
Frances Haugen, a former member of Facebook’s civic integrity team, correctly points to algorithmic-amplification-that’s-maximized-for-engagement as being at the root of many of Facebook’s harms.
Is it really true that there is a global outage of Facebook and Whatsapp? #facebookdown
#instagramdown
#WhatsAppdown #infosec #cybersecurity
#instagramdown
#WhatsAppdown #infosec #cybersecurity
Wow the memes are coming fast #facebookdown
All against the backdrop of this. h/t @tonyserrata #facebookdown
What we can learn from @60Minutes with #facebookwhistleblower is that Facebook keeps trying to frame the question as freedom of expression vs public safety, but it's very clearly profit vs public safety. No society should allow "profit" to be the answer to that choice.
There's Zuck telling congress "We're doing the best that can be done while respecting our countries' values";
There's the statement "balance protecting the right of people to express themselves openly vs keep our platform a safe and positive place".
That's bullsh.
There's the statement "balance protecting the right of people to express themselves openly vs keep our platform a safe and positive place".
That's bullsh.
There's no such thing as a right to be amplified in misleading, lying to, hating, harming others. Much can be done - it's Facebook's own documents saying it - before we get to the difficult speech vs safety question. What stops Facebook? The money they'll lose. Simple.
