The original source is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-...</a>
If you work for Facebook, what do you do in this situation?<p>Can you all please just leave? Is there some acceptable amount of collateral damage for you to maintain your lifestyle?<p>I’ll personally help you reconnect to your purpose and go out and live a life you’ve dreamed of.<p>Go start a company better than Facebook and hire all the people.
Always found the obsession about Soros odd, how can one guy be at the root of everything wrong in the world, like a comic-book super-villain? Just because he donates to some political causes, like most billionaires?
I spent the last two years reflecting on FB (was an early employee in social media), and put some reflections on the bubble at Facebook:<p><a href="https://www.nemil.com/tdf/part1-employees.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nemil.com/tdf/part1-employees.html</a><p><i>Management will laud what employees do, show them selective facts that justify their views, and hire/promote those who behave similarly to them. Employees in isolated teams with training in a single function may not realize the broad, unintended effects of their company's work. They'll assume the best of their friends and coworkers, without inquiring into the larger effects they're having.</i>
Interesting difference in opinions between this thread and this recent post about FB needing to censor it's platform: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458938" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458938</a><p>Not sure why the surprise. Pretty obvious that FB (and all other entities) will use it's power only to advance its own interests.<p>> People just submitted it. I don't know why. They "trust me" Dumb fucks.<p>- Mark Zuckerberg
Just like the last election, they literally played both sides of this. For thoose of you who don't know, Soros is a the Koch boogyman of the alt-right, and the frequent conspiracy charges against him start with the fact that he is Jewish.<p>"Facebook employed a Republican opposition-research firm to discredit activist protesters, in part by linking them to the liberal financier George Soros. It also tapped its business relationships, lobbying a Jewish civil rights group to cast some criticism of the company as anti-Semitic.<p>In Washington, allies of Facebook, including Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate leader, intervened on its behalf. And Ms. Sandberg wooed or cajoled hostile lawmakers, while trying to dispel Facebook’s reputation as a bastion of Bay Area liberalism."<p>In other words, they hired someone to make racist claims, and then hired someone to call anyone who criticized facebook racists. Then they got engaged with political groups on both sides, to play into stereotypes.<p>This is literally the tactics that Putin used in the last election. I wonder who he got it from
So, were the critics connected to Open Society Foundation on any other Soros controlled organisation?<p>Also, describing him as a philanthropist and not mentioning his shady businesses like causing "Black Wednesday" or what he did to Thailand is... curious.<p>And the fact he's Jewish doesn't make looking into his actions racist.
Has any George Soros conspiracy theory ever panned out? Hearing his name come up is a bright red flag that the person you're talking to has had his brain poisoned by right wing nutjobs.
shady spin issues aside -<p>because some people criticize george soros for antisemitic reasons, automatically all criticism of george soros is antisemitic?<p>then again this opinion is from ADL which states that anti zionism is automatically anti semitism (effectively calling huge numbers of hassidic jews anti semitic)<p>oops, i criticized. must be a nazi.