Top Meta executive said the company’s name change was a success because it beat out coverage of the ‘Facebook Papers’ revelations::Meta’s Chris Cox explained to employees the company’s rebrand succeeded in driving press coverage amid whistleblower disclosures.
Ever heard the criticism about some movie villains being “comically evil and unrealistic”? Well, tell those critics you’re sorry. Like even the MCU villains are realistic enough at this point. Matter of fact, Obadiah Stane is the perfect representation of one of these evil motherfuckers. That’s why he’s the scariest villain in the whole franchise.
Wasn’t there a recent James Bond movie about some guy controlling the water supply, which was less bad than an actual dictator’s plan?
Sounds like Quantum of Solace
Yea, that’s the one! I remember being very disappointed in that one :/
I was too originally. After a recent rewatch, I found I actually quite liked it.
Boycott META. Boycott billionaires.
no I’m good thanks 👍
Zuck sock account?
Makes me wonder what absolute horrors Elon is getting ahead of, with Twitter’s rename.
That is a good point worth considering… Though I just think he wants to shove some Fintech in there and thinks the name X is “cool”.
Anybody got a link to “The Facebook Papers”?
Oh fuck. I didn’t know this was around the same time. I literally tell everyone about how shit FB is and this proves it 1000x.
If you have a daughter or are a daughter, you should hate meta. They’re inspiring a generation of self hating women and they have the data to prove it.
Where does it say that in the article ? I wholeheartedly believe “”“meta”'" would do that, but I didn’t see it mentionned here.
It doesn’t say it there. I’m pulling from other sources.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/25/what-are-the-facebook-papers/
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Washington Post has a paywall after a certain number of article views unless you’re a subscriber.
Do people even still use Facebook?
I deactivated for 4 years. Then I decided to see what people were up to, and I discovered my local Buy Nothing group and a number of groups for my action figure collecting, and those are honestly worth it for me. I did my best to limit what data I’m giving them, but not only do they make it Byzantinely difficult, other software keeps selling them my info. My ads were slightly less targeted for a couple of weeks, then reverted back to being scarily targeted. That said, while I hate the privacy issues, I really like the groups. Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
Damn, I wish we could just get those groups on sites like lemmy instead. I wonder if the lack of anonymity might foster trust between members of a group that buys and sells stuff to each other? 🤔
We could definitely have Buy Nothing groups, but the Facebook options for inter-member commerce are too convenient and offer decent protections. For a price of course. But when you’ve never done business with someone before, it’s nice to have those protections.
Kids hate it but they love Instagram
My gf (not a kid) is proud how she hasn’t used FB in a year but she’s on Instagram every day
Same Zuck shit
it’s not real
I can’t imagine willingly working for a company this openly evil. Imagine sitting through an all hands like this.
Some software engineers are fine with temporarily casting aside their morals in exchange for a north of 200k USD salary.
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BS. Meta engineers can work anywhere they want. It is absolutely their fault that they choose to continue enabling Meta. Meta couldn’t survive without them.
Many other professions have ethical standards. Software engineering should be no different.
That’s like someone saying “I didn’t make the rules” while enforcing them. It removes exactly zero responsibility.
“I was only following ze orders”
Exactly.
If you have a skill set that lets you choose between working an for an ethical company for 100k and working for an evil company for 200k, it’s on you if you choose the latter.
What if I pick the 100k one… then get sick, have medical bills, can’t work anymore, and end up in debt? Because, let me tell you, being ethical only got me more insomnia.
Then how would the 200k job magically make things better? The kind of medical bills you’re talking about aren’t payable unless you’re a 1%er. You’re screwed either way. And I say that as someone who also has chronic insomnia.
100k is slightly more than what I’d need right now to stop worrying. Had I got that several years ago, chances are I wouldn’t even get this sick in the first place, meaning that would likely be several times extra 100k… and it clearly didn’t stop others from taking the high pay road, so being more ethical only screwed me, didn’t even prevent others from getting screwed.
What if I pick the 200k one and have to live with the fact that I made the world a worse place for everyone else? Being selfish is fine of course, but I don’t even earn 50k, 100k would already be ridiculous. I can’t imagine the difference between 100k and 200k being that big of an improvement to one’s life to justify increasing the suffering of others so much.
Well, I figure out the difference between 100k and 200k in how many years would it take me to get those extra 100k… like, right now, some extra 100k would solve all my financial problems for the foreseeable future, even possibly for life (yeah, I might not have all that much life expectancy left).
Had I been more selfish when I had the chance, I’d be much better off now. The way things are, I’m also suffering while others are… suffering the same, just someone else got more selfish in my place, we won nothing.
Software engineers (the ones who work in firms producing nonfree software) have little to no class consciousness since none of them actually have meaningful ownership of the code they produce. They are just laborers of a greater executive/shareholders’ visions. This way, they get to deflect blame since they were “another cog in the machine.”
Software engineers will not EVER push back on these companies because they have no hutzpah materially (worker ownership) or socially (Corporate mindshare). Opponents of free software correctly point this out but never go further than “i just need to make money.”
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he knows we still call it facebook, right? like only propagandists call it ‘meta’.
Of course he knows, don’t think these people are stupid. Still it limited the amount of news about the Facebook Papers by giving the press something else to write about. This post proves it even more.
And yet in the long run, they can make the name Meta stick, just by behaving like the renaming was a huge success and just ignoring everyone who calls the whole company Facebook.
If you like it or not over time Facebook will be just one of their brands, also probably not even the most attractive one.
Ya know what? He’s not wrong. I forgot about that for a while. I hate him a more now because it worked.
Jokes on him, the app is still called Facebook on my Android!
Not being a Facebook user and only seeing some mentions of FB/Meta in thread like this I can confirm I haven’t heard of the Facebook Papers. It rings a bell about some privacy violation stuff, but not a big one.
It wasn’t a success because of that. People just don’t care about the Facebook Papers and the Twitter exposes.
They either already suspected it, and this just confirms it, or they don’t give a fuck, they just want a place to post inane statuses and talk to people, because it’s social media.
Sadly they are sheep and they never will wake up.
