KidDynamite posted:

wife works in advertising can confirm


she told me she’s run facebook reports days after a campaign is done and they’ve failed to meet metrics but then magically when it’s time to present to clients facebook comes back with the right numbers. everyone knows they’re getting grifted but won’t do anything about it because then their job doesn’t exist.

Munkeymon posted:

just heard a thing on a podcast about how Twitter was sure they found a botnet by posting metrics but when someone dug into it they found out that some conspiracy peddling grifter was signal boosting by sweet-talking old retired ladies into paying him to get on a list of old ladies he regularly flirted with on DMs. only rule other than the entry fee is that they had to Rt all his bullshit.

Kind Friend posted:

sounds interesting whats the podcast

Shifty Pony posted:

lol boomers fail the turing test

Stringent posted:

cookout is the best fast food franchise

quote:

Tong then brings up a post made in Sri Lanka, calling for the murder of Muslims. “It was put up at a time when there were significant tensions between Sri Lankan Muslims… that eventually resulted in a state of emergency.

“In that context, wouldn’t such a post inflame tensions?”

Allan agrees it would.

Tong asks why, then, that post is not down. Allan says it should be, and that there must have been a mistake; Tong quotes from Facebook’s response, which says that no policy has been broken, and Allan repeats that it’s a mistake.

quote:

Collins turns to Canada’s Charlie Angus, who says he is “deeply disappointed” at Zuckerberg’s decision to “blow off this meeting”, and asks Allan “who gave Mr Zuckerberg the advice to ignore this committee.”

Allan: “Our intent is to be there to answer the questions you have of us,” but that doesn’t always involve Zuckerberg.

Angus: “Mr Zuckerberg’s decision to not appear here speaks volumes … when he says that the plan was, to move fast and break things, and that breaking may have involved our democratic institutions, does he not think or not believe that parliamentarians will push back?”

Allan: “As we sit here today, there are reviews of Facebook’s engineering product going on that he is leading.”

quote:

And finally, Charlie Angus, Canada’s representative, brings up Facebook’s inflated video metrics, overstated for two years. “I would consider that corporate fraud, on a massive scale,” he says, “and the best fix is anti-trust. The simplest form of regulation would be to break facebook up, or treat it as a utility, so that we can all be sure that we’re counting metrics that are accurate or true. To allow you to gobble up all the competition is not good.”
Allan says, “it depends on the problem we’re trying to solve,” and Angus counters that “the problem is Facebook, everything else is just a symptom.”
Allan: “Unless you’re going to turn off the internet, I’m not sure people would be better off in doing without Facebook offering the services it’s spent 15 years perfecting how to offer.”

Shaggar posted:

oh, 3rd rate economies are trying to steal more money from superior American companies? this is a new development.

Shaggar posted:

oh, 3rd rate economies are trying to steal more money from superior American companies? this is a new development.

Shaggar posted:

oh, 3rd rate economies are trying to steal more money from superior American companies? this is a new development.

Shaggar posted:

yes lots of countries like to sit at the big boy table and make pretend that they have a say.

Shaggar posted:

yes lots of countries like to sit at the big boy table and make pretend that they have a say.

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

should bookmark this page, the historic moment where microsoft-boosting wasn't controversial enough for shaggar, so he had to switch to espousing the values of facebook

Shaggar posted:

i don't give a poo poo about facebook, but im not stupid enough to think government having any say in regulation of the internet is a good idea. Facebook is dying on its own and we don't need government to get involved at any level. The EU has a long history of theft from American companies and Canada getting in on the game is not noteworthy. If they use it as an excuse to censor the internet then its pretty horrible and i don't know why you fascists are rooting for it.

Shaggar posted:

i don't give a poo poo about facebook, but im not stupid enough to think government having any say in regulation of the internet is a good idea. Facebook is dying on its own and we don't need government to get involved at any level. The EU has a long history of theft from American companies and Canada getting in on the game is not noteworthy. If they use it as an excuse to censor the internet then its pretty horrible and i don't know why you fascists are rooting for it.

Captain Foo posted:

graph posted:

shags are you sliding into becoming non-ironic

Spatial posted:

lmao the eu is stealing from us companies. coincidentally these thefts only seem to happen after flagrantly violating the law for years at a time

Shifty Pony posted:

lol boomers fail the turing test

Shaggar posted:

i don't have the brain disease you guys do that thinks government censorship is a good idea. like i get you don't like facebook and that's fine cause its not good, but i don't get the desire to see the government punish them outside of political hacks who blame facebook for trump.

Captain Foo posted:

some edit about them breaking the law

haveblue posted:

even if you don't have a problem with facebook as an entity and concept its current leadership is indefensible

Shaggar posted:

i don't have the brain disease you guys do that thinks government censorship is a good idea. like i get you don't like facebook and that's fine cause its not good, but i don't get the desire to see the government punish them outside of political hacks who blame facebook for trump.

Shaggar posted:

and they're gonna go down with the ship as people continue to abandon the platform. who cares.

Shaggar posted:

what laws?

El_Elegante posted:

I hate it when me genocide gets all inflamed

haveblue posted:

that ship needs to go down a lot faster

Rex-Goliath posted:

dude they’ve literally sat on their hands as their tool inflamed genocide

i think it’s ok to consider that maybe they’ve crossed a line

Shaggar posted:

and the governments you want to censor them are actively committing genocide.

Shaggar posted:

and the governments you want to censor them are actively committing genocide.