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Jason Kint

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28 Oct

Stop. Please. Retweeting and dunking still serves to distract. Here is the reality - their market power and abuse were already evident before we saw evidence they knew about the harms. That includes January 6th insurrection and this highly questionable testimony this morning. 1/2

Global press is shining sunlight on how they serve to promote and accelerated the spread of harms. It’s critically important to focus on market power otherwise as in the past they’ll not be able to speak to the harms months later. /2

According to this evidence, Facebook put 4% of its profits towards safety and security. That’s $13B in five years compared to $275 Billion in profits. And that’s advertisers knowingly funding a platform that causes these harms. /3

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Jason Kint

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28 Oct

@DamianCollins

Threading thoughts from UK Parliament hearing with social media platforms. First up is Facebook including Antigone Davis who testified a few weeks ago to US Senate. @DamianCollins is already drilling down on FB's research very much exposing Facebook's negligence and spinning. /1

MP Collins did a breathtaking job in unpacking the issues, the lack of answers to accountability. Here is how he closed revealing only 4% of Facebook's $275B in profits went toward safety and security. Watch for the drink of the water glass. It’s a facebook tell. /2

@DamianCollins

This was after @DamianCollins probed on where decision making actually happens. In 2018, all answers were “the buck stops with Mark.” Now with the SEC complaints and plethora of lawsuits about governance, control, insider trading, it seems Facebook’s talking point went vague. /3

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Jason Kint

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28 Oct

OK, US media, attention y’all. History lesson. In 2018-19, a parliamentary committee and chair was deceived by Facebook policy team kicking off FB’s most difficult period. Their vital work often didn’t get US coverage.
This same chair has must-watch hearing at 10a ET today. /1

@DamianCollins

Over 2yrs, that chair would become one of savviest lawmakers on planet regarding the issues while US Congress also began to get educated on them. @DamianCollins was smart enough on the issues that Zuckerberg and Sandberg refused summons on both sides of Atlantic to avoid him. /2

Their committee work was methodical yet broad enough to uncover facts, deeply probing and collaborative across parties leading to recommended changes in legislation now on the table and being examined by a joint select committee chaired by - you guessed it - MP Collins. /3

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Jason Kint

@jason_kint

26 Oct

And the Senate Commerce "We're not toxic like Facebook" hearing is underway. I'll thread thoughts here but having now read written testimony, Snap uniquely stands out as an "antidote" to the problems being uncovered in Facebook. /1

super interesting data point in Snap's written I don't think I've seen previously...throttling acceleration of velocity+reach for influencers until a human reviews it. "human-reviewed and moderated before it can be viewed by more than 25 people."
Opposite of FB's whitelist. /2

And Sen Blumenthal pops bubble by saying "we're not Facebook" isn't a good bar because that bar is "in the gutter." I do think nuance is important here. Tech and social media aren't de facto bad. There are clear distinctions in Google and Facebook's biz model and market power. /3

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Jason Kint

@jason_kint

26 Oct

Tuesday morning, critically important this week is keeping real and not allowing Facebook to set its own reality and then hack attention with rebrand and event this week. Everything should be in context of the 75+ news reports yesterday on what we’ve learned, the facts. /1

@birnbaum_e

Politico podcast from @birnbaum_e has a corporate comms source describing Facebook as “flailing.” That’s probably more right than wrong with CEO’s rant on earnings suggesting we should want more companies like Facebook and its results for the world. /2 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pol…

There is a 10am Senate Commerce (same Committee whistleblower testifies) hearing with TikTok, Snap, YouTube execs. Facebook is desperate to reshape issues to be about all social media but the entire hearing and coverage should be in context of differentiating from Facebook. /3

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Jason Kint

@jason_kint

25 Oct

this is a nauseating and embarrassing enthusiastic sales snow job by someone with absolutely zero remaining credibility or trust as a CEO of a major tech company let alone one the one with the greatest impact on global information, civil society and democracy. /1

I'm trying to keep track of his adversaries he's trying to paint and neuter with these prepared remarks:
So far I've logged:
- apple's privacy improvements
- the whistleblower's leaking
- free and plural press "coordinating"
- antitrust enforcers

GTFO with the metaverse. /2

Snap CEO supported Apple's privacy changes. Sheryl Sandberg is about to lay out all of the problems it's causing for the company while not supporting them and instead trying to still hug small business. Every word should be parsed. /3

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