WSJ: Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show.
This chart from the article visualizes the new digital colonialism epitomized by the ‘blue app’ as use steadily declines in US/EU.
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A few excerpts from the article that do not require a trigger warning are offered below for a glimpse into the internal reporting on extreme human depravity and systemic violent oppression by bad actors using Facebook as it was designed. wsj.com/articles/faceb…
What if Facebook should not exist? What if Facebook is actually a terrible idea? What if extracting data and attention out of nations at any cost is causing a net harm to humanity despite executives paid generously to insist otherwise? What if Mark Zuckerberg is a failed emperor?
Facebook is adtech. Every aspect of the products are fiducially subservient to the imperative of adtech. Facebook would not be a profitable company nor a good investment if it had to be radically redesigned to safely deliver communications rather than auction attention invasively
This keeps happening. Algorithmically incentivized genocide. Facebook executives always say they’ll “do more” and their absolute power is necessary because the problems that they have created are so big and wicked.
WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO WITH ALL THE SLAVERY AD REVENUE?
—FB internal memo
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