Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

What’s unusual about Facebook is that Zuckerberg is more deeply invested in BS than most CEOs, seemingly as an employee retention tactic. But it’s like any other company, the product causes a mix of harms and benefits and the leadership does not care — at all — what the mix is. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 26, 2021 Hibernated

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I don’t really think this is right — what the leaks show is not that Facebook is “bad” but just that it’s a normal companies whose decision weight is 100% “this makes us money” and 0% “stuff we pretend to care about.” Again, that is super normal. — PolitiTweet.org

The thing to understand about the Facebook leaks is that you’re only getting half the story. It’s like only reading… https://t.co/gHSNvpUEXF

Posted Oct. 26, 2021 Hibernated

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But again, the fact that the executives are utterly indifferent to whether their products harmful or not doesn’t mean the harms outweigh the benefits. It’s just that everyone involved should be clear-eyed that preventing harm or causing benefit has no role in decision-making. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 26, 2021 Hibernated