Re:Elliot Schrage on Definers
by panarky on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @06:36PM
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The quantity of doublespeak is off the charts.
"Many of you have raised questions" (our employees are disgusted, ashamed, and close to open revolt)
"We’ve been looking into this" (as if nobody at FB knew what they'd done until the NYT story dropped)
"diversify our DC advisors after the election" (kowtow to the same ultra right wing forces who corrupted our platform to begin with)
"Like many companies" (everybody's doing it, deflect blame and accountability)
"want government to regulate us" (insist that FB clean up the catastrophe it created)
"became particularly acute in September 2017 after we released details of Russian interference" (after the public learned that we'd given our users data to Cambridge Analytica without consent)
"Many of you have raised questions" (our employees are disgusted, ashamed, and close to open revolt)
"We’ve been looking into this" (as if nobody at FB knew what they'd done until the NYT story dropped)
"diversify our DC advisors after the election" (kowtow to the same ultra right wing forces who corrupted our platform to begin with)
"Like many companies" (everybody's doing it, deflect blame and accountability)
"want government to regulate us" (insist that FB clean up the catastrophe it created)
"became particularly acute in September 2017 after we released details of Russian interference" (after the public learned that we'd given our users data to Cambridge Analytica without consent)
And that's just the first six sentences.
Just more "Delay, Deny and Deflect" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-...