(Busted): Fakebook internal emails justify their operation even if exposure leads to someone dying from a terrorist attack or being bullied.
Facebook exec in 2016 internal memo defends 'ugly' growth tactics, even if people use platform for evil
Jillian D'Onfro | @jillianiles
Published 16 Hours Ago Updated 15 Hours Ago
CNBC.comFacebook executive Andrew "Boz" Bosworth defended the company's "questionable" growth tactics in the name of connecting people, in an internal memo from 2016.
He says now that he disagreed even at the time with what he wrote and CEO Mark Zuckerberg also says he "disagreed strongly" with its ideas.
Called "The Ugly," the memo also stated that "anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good," even if people use that platform for bad outcomes, like bullying or planning a terrorist attack.
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Bosworth says that he didn't believe the content of the post even when he wrote it, but that he wanted to encourage debate on "hard topics."
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THE POST
Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed
Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.Originally posted on March 29, 2018, at 4:54 p.m.
Updated on March 29, 2018, at 5:36 p.m.On June 18, 2016, one of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s most trusted lieutenants circulated an extraordinary memo weighing the costs of the company’s relentless quest for growth.
“We connect people. Period. That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it,” VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth wrote.
“So we connect more people,” he wrote in another section of the memo. “That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies.”
“Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools”
The explosive internal memo is titled “The Ugly,” and has not been previously circulated outside the Silicon Valley social media giant.
OF COURSE this asshole didn’t mean it. Just because that’s exactly how they operated was just coincidental. They were making the world better while KNOWINGLY putting its subscribers at possible risk. But hey! It’s okay! They’re only doing it for their subscribers (and everyone else’s) own ‘good’. Dead bodies and terror attacks are definitely ‘conversation’ starters.
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These buttons get confusing on an iPhone
I hate it when this happens
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Facebook sucks. Let me count the ways.
1. They steal/sell your stuff and snoop on you. Data mining for profit.
2. They make sure your posts are seen by the same five friends all of the time. The reverse is also true.
3. Once they limit your outreach to the same 11 people, they spam you to "buy boost power" so more people can see your posts. I think this is called a scam.
4. In addition, they censor/delete anything they don't want anyone to see.
There is a new uncensored site very similar in style, format and purpose to facebook. It is called MeWe.com I am running into folks everywhere trying to escape from Facebook. If we can get a critical mass to abandon FB, I will open a c99 FB page there. So far, MeWe is the best alternative to FB that I've run into despite not having many people - yet.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
While I am still really glad
I never joined the thing even if one does not they still get our information. One of my friends actually had that "I have nothing to hide" attitude and I did let her know that while she may think she has nothing to hide, that data is out there FOREVER. And we do not know just who all has access to it. She made some remark about a minister in church saying God knows all our thoughts so it's all OK. Yeah, God doesn't sell your personal data though, now does He?
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Let me count the ways.
Or, rather, let me not;
For it would cost me
All the remainder of my living days!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
I only joined to sell my photos
Everyone told me that if I posted them on farcebook I'd get tons of sells. Nope. Didn't happen. Then I was bombarded with "to get more people to see your posts" do this. If you want to see more of what your friends are saying do this.... guess what? I didn't do those type and they deleted my photos. F*ck em.
But what pissed me off was the friend requests. Hey look there's my Jr. High school teachers, friends I had in California and the article on such and such I had just looked at. That's when I quit looking at the damn thing and left.
Oh yeah, I had to find out that my aunt had a life ending stroke on Fucking Facebook! Not from a phone call. If I hadn't looked I would never has known. Facebook has ruined social politeness.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Technically, you're obliged to interact with the IRS once a year
Facebook not so much.
Quite why anyone is dealing with Suckerberg and his data mining regime, after all this, is beyond me.
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.