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Communication Researcher. Author: TECHLASH 📖. Former Visiting Research Fellow @USC. 📝 AI Panic Newsletter. @techdirt @TheDailyBeast @BigThink @TechPolicyPress

Sep 18, 2021, 6 tweets

1/ After a week of exposés about Facebook by the @WSJ, #FacebookFiles, one of which around Instagram being toxic for teen girls, Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) Head of Instagram, defended the company (Recode Media podcast, @pkafka) by saying:

2/ This #ResponseTemplate is used for any possible issue. After the Capitol attack on January 6, @mosseri told @reckless (@verge, Decoder podcast):

3/ Back in 2019, during an interview with TIME magazine (@katysteinmetz) on the subject of online bullying, @mosseri said:

4/ Where do you learn to dodge responsibility? Your Boss. In 2018, in an interview with @karaswisher, addressing the Russian election meddling and the killings in Myanmar, Mark Zuckerberg explained how Facebook could “do better”:

5/ The #ResponseTemplate went viral across Big Tech. Last month, addressing the spread of Misinformation on YouTube, its Chief Product Officer (@nealmohan) said:

6/ They use the same PR playbook because the news cycle continues, and the latest issue goes away. The platforms amplify not only the good, but also the bad - in various ways. So, this reoccurring response is simply their attempt to reduce their responsibility.

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