Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive

Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by ponker on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @12:24AM (#23319381)

Potentially useful context: the parent here was the Co-Founder and CEO of Onavo which he sold to Facebook for $120 million. If the name "Onavo" doesn't trigger any bells: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo . It was ostensibly a VPN but tracked its users' behavior and Facebook used the data from Onavo to judge how much traffic various startups had when deciding whether to acquire them.

I think that the fact that the founder/CEO of Onavo is now Facebook's VP of Integrity is entirely consistent with everything else we've read about Facebook over the years.

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by mrgill on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @07:39AM (#23321817)

And now calls himself VP of Integrity.

Amazing..

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by hellcow on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:35AM (#23322248)

> The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.

-- 1984

His title VP of Integrity is not accidental; it can't be.

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