Two things came to mind while watching the 60 minutes segment on the Facebook whistleblower. That is, two things in addition to the obvious, that FB is a sewer that makes money hand over fist by making everything worse:
The garbage-mouth of Facebook executives. The people who wrote these memos couldn’t formulate a clear thought if it came up and bit ’em on their algorithm — and these are the good guys:
“we estimate that we may action as little as 3-5% of hate…”
“…Colleagues… cannot conscience working for a company that does not do more to mitigate the negative effects of its platform.”
“Action” and “conscience” are not verbs, dear friends. You mean “respond to” and “countenance.” And those are just two of the more egregious examples.
And then there’s this, from FB’s response to the whistleblower’s allegations:
We continue to make significant improvements to tackle the spread of misinformation and harmful content. To suggest we encourage bad content and do nothing is just not true.”
“If any research had identified an exact solution to these complex challenges, the tech industry, governments, and society would have solved them a long time ago.”
Uh huh… In about 10 seconds, I figured out how an “exact solution to [the] complex challenges” faced by Facebook would work and work well. The solution is simple, complete, and permanent:
Shut Facebook down.