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Facebook Is a 'Living, Breathing Crime Scene,' Says Former Tech Insider (nbcnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: With more than 2 billion users, Facebook's reach now rivals that of Christianity and exceeds that of Islam. However, the network's laser focus on profits and user growth has come at the expense of its users, according to one former Facebook manager who is now speaking out against the social platform. "One of the things that I saw consistently as part of my job was the company just continuously prioritized user growth and making money over protecting users," the ex-manager, Sandy Parakilas, who worked at Facebook for 16 months, starting in 2011, told NBC News. During his tenure at Facebook, Parakilas led third-party advertising, privacy and policy compliance on Facebook's app platform. "Facebook is a living, breathing crime scene for what happened in the 2016 election -- and only they have full access to what happened," said Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google. His work centers on how technology can ethically steer the thoughts and actions of the masses on social media and he's been called "the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience" by The Atlantic magazine.
In response to the comments, Facebook issued a statement saying it is a "vastly different company" from when it was founded. "We are taking many steps to protect and improve people's experience on the platform," the statement said. "In the past year, we've worked to destroy the business model for false news and reduce its spread, stop bad actors from meddling in elections, and bring a new level of transparency to advertising. Last week, we started prioritizing meaningful posts from friends and family in News Feed to help bring people closer together. We have more work to do and we're heads down on getting it done."
In response to the comments, Facebook issued a statement saying it is a "vastly different company" from when it was founded. "We are taking many steps to protect and improve people's experience on the platform," the statement said. "In the past year, we've worked to destroy the business model for false news and reduce its spread, stop bad actors from meddling in elections, and bring a new level of transparency to advertising. Last week, we started prioritizing meaningful posts from friends and family in News Feed to help bring people closer together. We have more work to do and we're heads down on getting it done."
I'd rather have these ragheadded camel fuckers on Facebook than in the US.
Because some fruitcake from google didn't like the outcome of your countrys election, they are blaming facebook. Not that I like facebook, but get a grip powder puff.
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Islam is no less a religion than christianity. What you really should do is replace "islam" with "chritianity" in what you wrote, and then go learn a little history with that viewpoint.... i'm absolutely certain you will be a little more than surprised... although it doesn't take much effort to actually learn history, so it seems you're not interested in reality, just on being ignorant.
Fascism, on the other hand, isn't limited to any single religion, although the examples we have seen have used christianity, not islam, as a focus. Fascism is a conservative nationalist movement, led by an autocrat or dictator, that typically espouses a strong military worship, abuse of a religion to control people, including forceful suppression of opposition, protectionism, anti-socialist, and persecution of racial and religious minorities.
Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. See also: NAZI's