“Content-moderation decisions are momentous, but they are as momentous as they are because of Facebook’s engineering decisions and other choices that determine which speech proliferates on the platform, how quickly it spreads, which users see it, and in what context they see it.”
“It would also let Facebook off the hook for business practices that cause significant harm to democracy.”
Synergy, @justinhendrix@RepAdamSchiff. “the board should advise the company to commission an independent investigation into the ways in which the design of its platform may have contributed to the events of Jan. 6.”
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!!! more Facebook docs posted - including plaintiff's request for deposition of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. The Judge ordered the material in yellow to be unsealed after Facebook lost a long battle to keep docs redacted. 1/3
Ridiculous amount of redactions on this page. Now unsealed. Again, this is plaintiff's letter but it does include discovery on PR plan regarding inflated potential reach, SUMA (FB term for duplicate accounts), fake accounts and an apparent reversing of course by Sandberg. 2/3
Final page, again yellow is what Judge ordered unsealed. Claim that (now departed) VP under Sandberg didn't have any recollection of conversations...hence need to ask Sandberg questions who they say has 1st-hand knowledge. Get in line behind @AGKarlRacine among others. 3/3
woah, I have the unsealed docs here. this is the Facebook census / fake accounts case DCN filed to get unsealed for public interest. Judge recently ruled in our favor. So I guess here come the docs. And the apparent cover-up was once again worse than imagined. Sandberg.
Wow, this is really bad. I'll post my prior thread in a second. Just making my way through it. Yellow highlights are mine.
Here is the thread of the judge's ruling to unseal on Jan 11th, I sort of forgot about it with everything else. We're a party to the case since we filed to unseal. Docs must have started posting in the last few hours.
Once again. Facebook (and Google) relies on and collects a majority of its data from *when you’re on products they don’t control and you’re not intending to interact with them.* That’s why they fear iOS privacy changes, data protection (aka privacy) laws & antitrust scrutiny. /1
The idea that they’re defending journalism, small biz or that, enforced equally, this will only make Google and Facebook stronger is complete garbage. In fact, if focused on the companies doing the most tracking, it will return value to people’s preferred news and services. /2
Included in BS is a certain analyst who argues there’s some higher-level privacy offered b/c Facebook (and Google) ingest this otherwise useless data and use their tech to protect it from other parties. That’s literally the source of their power and dominant $250B+ ad empires. /3
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg has spent his weekend on calls with Australian govt stemming from their significant antitrust investigation of past 2yrs now leading to a new law expected to pass next week. If you want to know the soft spot on Facebook’s belly.
And if you believe Google and Facebook have leverage because of their supposed threats to leave Australia, I have a bridge to sell you. Committee report shows all parties endorse the new law, they should be full speed ahead to pass next week regardless of G/FB scrambling.
Here is AP on reports of commercial deals. Be warned, Google and Facebook’s lobby can create a swirl when things get super sensitive. Opaque deals are bad. Especially tied narrowly to Google News Showcase product which some say is a crappy product at that. apnews.com/article/techno…
incredibly important to timeline. GOP Senator’s 1st person account which counters Trump’s counsel’s claims of hearsay. And confirm’s Trump’s knowledge of Pence being in danger ten minutes PRIOR to sending tweet attacking Pence for being unwilling to do something unconstitutional.
Extraordinary testimony from GOP member of congress. “He is not a blameless observer, he was rooting for them.” New details about Trump-McCarthy shouting match show Trump refused to call off the rioters cnn.com/2021/02/12/pol…
And here is the statement from another GOP Member of Congress. I don’t know why @RepRaskin hasn’t called them to testify. They are acting with incredible courage 🙏🏽, practically begging others to share their own details and the broader public isn’t aware of any of this.
Google propaganda like this requires more unpacking. You’ll find out G’s deals map closely to where they have regulatory threats. (Unlike Facebook), Google has not said they’ll bring Showcase and $ to US. The game they’re playing is obvious to the world. wsj.com/articles/micro…
There it is. So according to this report, the French news industry can be bought out by Google for $20-30 mil per year. It’s good to be a monopoly. reuters.com/article/google…