🚨First interview with @wsj’s Facebook whistleblower tonight on @60Minutes tonight🚨
A BIG deal. The total failure to hold Facebook to account after Cambridge Analytica is coming home to roost.
How many more insurrections have to happen before we do?
Facebook is out running interference ahead of interview. Nick Clegg is on manoeuvres. Because this is serious.
So many civil society groups - including & esp @FBoversight - were involved in strenuous attempts to get FB to take action ahead of US election
nytimes.com/2021/10/02/tec…
The point is that so many academics, experts, civil rights groups were warning of exactly this.
The insurrection wasn’t some sort of black swan event impossible to predict. Facebook’s failure to take essential measures to protect against violence was pointed out *repeatedly*
It was why @FBoversight was launched. To warn the public that Facebook’s failure to act was to use @tribelaw’s words to watch ‘a coup d’etat in progress’
My phone threw up this memory yesterday. The last time a whistleblower spoke so directly, Facebook melted down.
It precipitated their biggest corporate crisis to date.
And yet. Not a single executive was held to account.
In fact, that house of cards may be about to fall. The whitewashing job that enabled Facebook to emerge from the Cambridge Analytica wreckage may yet be exposed.
And this new whistleblower brings Facebook again into the spotlight…
theguardian.com/technology/202…
Pay attention to how @nickclegg is trying to deflect & divert.
I especially love how he emphasises Facebook removed ‘the original #StopTheSteal group’ conveniently glossing over all the other #StopTheStealgroups Facebook did nothing about. Including the one Steve Bannon was in
And here it is: the Nick Clegg defence in full. This is why they pay him the big bucks.
Social media doesn’t kill people. People kill people.
It’s a direct lift from the NRA school of media management. And if that all Facebook has left, it should be very very worried indeed
Starts in half an hour. Meanwhile…
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