> "We take X seriously" therefore there are no problems with X.
This is my favorite response doing Tech DDs. I meet execs who say "we take security seriously" all of the time. I enjoy the follow-on of "ok show us then"...
Do you backup your DB? Do you test it? No?
Do you encrypt everything at rest? No?
Are you using MFA for all services that are accessible by developers? No?
etc. etc.
Then no, you don't take security seriously.
> "I want to be clear: This research is not a bombshell."
It's not, because you knew about it.
I say we do to Facebook what JFK wanted to do to the CIA.
Imagine social media without a profit motive. Decentralize, distribute and encrypt the fuck out of it. I don’t want curated feeds, I want to keep in touch with people I know.
Use it to invade Cuba?
The magic incantation.
Flawed reasoning: "We take X seriously" therefore there are no problems with X.
Contrast "seriously" with "seriously enough".
There must be more to it. There must be some science behind the use of the "take X seriously" statements.
"We've committed to not retaliating for this individual speaking to the Senate," she said.
Do they know who it is. Do they believe retaliation would be legal.
"Facebook's brand is bad, and I think Facebook, you know, would freely admit that," said Katie Harbath, a former public policy director at the company. "But, you know, nobody else is gonna come and defend the company besides themselves."
Why won't anyone else come and defend the company. Wouldn't advertisers, users (ad targets) and investors want to defend the company.
"In this next chapter of our company, I think we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company," [Zuckerberg] told tech journalist Casey Newton this summer.
Try to escape bad rep. Social media bad. "We are not social media. We are metaverse."
"They've been able to weather these storms over and over again," said Yael Eisenstat, who worked at Facebook on elections integrity for political advertising in 2018.
"What I think is different this time is that I don't think they're fully understanding that internal employees have questions now."
After Facebook has "connected the world", then what. No more growth. What then.