Re:Facebook page unpublished with no warning
by reaperducer on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:29PM
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by posting it on HackerNews, I had a bunch of Facebook people replying
Not a lot of Facebook people on HN these days. Or at least they don't reveal it.
Apple people were notorious for being on HN, and never revealing who they were. After a while, the Facebook people all went silent. Then most of the Google people, though there are still a few here and there that will let you know.
It's like the FAANG employees all got the same memo about not revealing who they are. Or they got tired of trying to be helpful to only receive hundreds of off-topic replies from people grinding axes.
I can't blame them, you see replies like "how do you feel working for such an amoral unethical company" and you start to understand why they don't like to reveal it anymore.
Re:Facebook page unpublished with no warning
by suslik on Saturday January 29, 2022 @04:35AM
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I would assume it is pretty standard. I work for a non-FAANG very well known company, and its requirements for a social media post that mentions the company name are so strict it is just easier for me not to name it. The formal justification for that is that the definition of advertising can widely differ between countries - that can include social media posts by employees; and given that advertising itself is in many cases strictly regulated, certain annoying precautions should be taken.
Additionally, FAANG already gets a bad rep on multiple fronts; preventing employees from releasing their dirty laundry (and it can safely be assumed to be exceptionally dirty) is in their interests.
Re:Facebook page unpublished with no warning
by Noumenon72 on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:18PM
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Did they go to some cool new site we can't get into?
I think it had like 300,000 likes roughly. I believe I was one of the few to also manage to monetise a Facebook page way back then using a new startup nobody had ever heard of (at the time) - Teespring! (now Spring, and a YC company to boot). Fun times, but teeth-clenching when Facebook decides to do whatever Facebook decides to do.