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Jason Kint

@jason_kint

23 Sep

@andymstone

thread: since Facebook PR @andymstone is feinting transparency, please explain whether some stories are are given any benefit of doubt due to an exemption list? I asked your COO Sandberg last year - concerning report Facebook uses Alexa popularity list as proxy for quality. /1

Here was my original Oct 30, 2020 (!!) email to Facebook's team and my list of very simple questions as a follow-up to a Guardian report. They shouldn't be hard to answer, no trade secrets but a pretty simple and important filter for the largest source of news on the planet. /2

Here was my follow-up email to COO Sheryl Sandberg on November 2nd. I'll note that this was immediately prior to the election when Facebook reportedly "broke glass" and increased ranking for high-quality news. /3

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Jason Kint

@jason_kint

23 Sep

woah. youngsters rejecting Facebook's main "blue app" is known but I must say this study of gen z (16-24) shows it's more in free fall relative to gen y (25-40). also speaks to why data-sharing and control over FB's Instagram has been so critical to the company's market power. /1

@Randeloo

that slide is from a new members-only study called Gen Z Digital Media Attitudes, Values & Behavior (digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2021/09/1…). dcn vp, research @Randeloo is avail for questions. DCN has been sharing some slides from it. here is a clean version w/out my markup. few more coming. /2

https://twitter.com/DCNorg/status/1441035135734927369?s=20

this one is on the effects of the pandemic on gen z and gen y. interesting to see how things are different for those who grew up in a world with devices and internet access in hands. /3

https://twitter.com/DCNorg/status/1441035135734927369?s=20

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Jason Kint

@jason_kint

22 Sep

In a company under global scrutiny for ethical lapses and a harmful core biz model, you don’t place your loyal lieutenant Andrew Bosworth in charge of all tech unless you’re preparing for war. Act accordingly. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

This is the language of a company in PR crisis mode. As far as I know, Elliot Schrage (took fall for Definers) also still “works there.” A full exit leads to more questions - this is window dressing and a big deal.

@CommonsDCMS

And not to state the obvious but this would make me very uncomfortable if I testified to @CommonsDCMS.

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1440305425845391373

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Jason Kint

@jason_kint

22 Sep

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1385073631458467841

Lol. Rather than Facebook communicate simply to the market what percentage of iOS users are asking it to stop tracking them (likely the most critical metric by far impacting its business this year), Facebook is sub-blogging warnings through PR.
This won’t end well.

https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1385073631458467841

And I would be willing to bet Facebook’s day is tied more closely to Apple limiting Facebook’s surveillance across its most valuable audience on its most valuable platform than Facebook’s fears of bad press, regulators or policy makers. But that’s where we are.

btw, there is likely a way for Facebook to do a workaround on apple’s new policy but that would open up the company to risk in Apple booting them or FTC section 5 violation. A few other things here worth considering….

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Jason Kint

@jason_kint

22 Sep

https://twitter.com/jeffhorwitz/status/1440713364477415431

Fairly diplomatic post by WSJ reporter providing top of class accountability journalism of Zuckerberg’s company through the Facebook Files series. Underneath it, I see Zuckerberg pivoting towards using his power to attack and discredit the best of the free and plural press.

https://twitter.com/jeffhorwitz/status/1440713364477415431

I flag this because Facebook’s response last week claimed WSJ included “deliberate mischaracterizations” and this user claims “blatantly falsely reports.” Zuckerberg seems comfortable falsely applying motivations and intention to some of the most trusted global newsrooms.

And I will reiterate trusted journalism makes mistakes and can be messy at times but always seeks getting to the facts and go out of their way to correct any mistakes. Broadly applying labels is an attempt to discredit rather than coming back with the facts to seek corrections.

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