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12 Mar, 13 tweets, 5 min read
Amazing. What are the odds??? I spy Joel Kaplan’s comms operative immediately next to Twitter’s Comms chief as @CaseyNewton leads a live convo with @_KarenHao about her massive report today on the toxic biz model of Facebook. technologyreview.com/2021/03/11/102…
I love it when @_KarenHao begins an answer with “When Facebook still thought I was going to write a puff piece...”
And Casey doing an outro for Twitter Spaces after ninety minutes of dissecting Facebook between press, ex-employees, academics and competitors also pretty enjoyable.
my only issue is treating Schroepfer as a forthright character. I mean their AI work is certainly interesting... the one time he testified to a Parliament he discussed it as the future to all of the problems he had inherited, errr helped create on the path to billions. But...also
I don't think anyone should interview him without asking about status of FB's largest app audit in history they promised repeatedly in testimony here and in UK. MA AG is probing actively.
UK ICO confirmed on Feb 17th Facebook hadn't actually followed up when her office closed its case. Remember the raid in which Facebook's people were kicked out of the office and Zuckerberg repeatedly said they would follow-up once ICO was done?
Schroepfer was even asked why FB's biannual audits didn't disclose largest breach in their company history. He misled Parliament by saying "we didn't know at the time." They absolutely knew. They covered it up and paid $5B to cover-up the cover-up. Hence Rhode Island suit.
He also claimed to not know about one of its largest purge of fake accounts during the most sensitive month in history. Anyway, just flagging I don't understand how the original leadership is still there despite the company's dishonesty and toxicity.
I know. I know. It starts at the top.
I know. I know. It starts at the top.
Yes, I have an issue with dishonest people putting profit ahead of democracy. The report today should be deeply disturbing to everyone.
congrats again on the reporting @_KarenHao. and thank you @CaseyNewton for experimenting with Spaces and allowing us to hear some of the reporting behind the reporting. Good stuff, and super important.
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10am! House Judiciary, antitrust hearing. I'm most interested in upcoming testimony from Microsoft Prez Brad Smith. In past months, they've come out as a brilliant advocate for the needs of a free and plural press in Australia, EU. Loved + appreciated. /1 judiciary.house.gov/calendar/event…
This dimension today is important - the downstream impact to journalism from lack of antitrust enforcement, particularly Google and Facebook. Investigations globally have connected the duopoly's stranglehold upstream to its unique access to data, particularly tracking users. /2
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11 Mar
Watching Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg repeatedly gaslight at her trade body's meeting as @r2rothenberg labels Facebook's issues as "memes." First, she dismisses the toxicity of their profit maximization to democracy. Read this please. /1
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Then she goes off on how diligent Facebook is in taking down fake accounts which semantically is at odds with unsealed evidence from just weeks ago and we await the unsealed fraud complaint. /2
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This is the chief lobbyist, who as much as anyone fixes the privacy rules low to protect the surveillance ads industry for Adtech, Google and Facebook. He apparently believes broadcasting his physical attributes to the internet isn’t creepy. No idea why video goes dark. 1/5
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Please just read this sentence. Facebook, Facebook, Facebook. They’ve also claimed unsuccessfully DC AG doesn’t have standing over its citizens and are currently arguing the entire nation of Canada doesn’t over its citizens either! Image
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Important context. Yesterday, CEO of Google and Facebook's key trade group (IAB) framed antitrust scrutiny as "short-sighted" attempting to redirect #1 priority towards federal privacy law (pro tip: to undermine CA law which threatens adtech and tracking). bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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