Facebook offered to âembedâ employees, for free, in Presidential campaign offices to help them use the platform effectively. Clintonâs campaign said no. Trumpâs said yes, and Facebook employees helped his campaign craft messages. Although Trumpâs language was openly hostile to ethnic minorities, inside Facebook his behavior felt, to some executives, like just part of the distant cesspool of Washington. Americans always seemed to be choosing between a hated Republican and a hated Democrat, and Trumpâs descriptions of Mexicans as rapists was simply an extension of that.
During the campaign, Trump used Facebook to raise two hundred and eighty million dollars. Just days before the election, his team paid for a voter-suppression effort on the platform. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, it targeted three Democratic constituenciesââidealistic white liberals, young women, and African Americansââsending them videos precisely tailored to discourage them from turning out for Clinton. Theresa Hong, the Trump campaignâs digital-content director, later told an interviewer, âWithout Facebook we wouldnât have won.â
Finishing up and really enjoying this book https://www.amazon.com/Arguments-Deleting-Social-Media-Accounts/dp/125019668X where this topic and many more are discussed to illustrate that Facebook is evil. Not that I needed convincing to close my account as I came to similar conclusions earlier, but seeing it clearly spelled out was helpful.
Facebookâs whole âwhen this place does what itâs supposed toâŚâ ad campaign reminded me of BPâs âapologiesâ in the wake of the Gulf spill. Fucking weak, bullshit PR to try to avoid consequences.
People need to just get the hell off of Facebook. But they wonât.
It seems like Zuckerberg, Sandberg and other execs are missing what many of their employees are upset about.
(this is also happening outside of FB)
To many people who have been sexually assaulted, raped, victims of domestic violence, etcâŚ, this is NOT a partisan issue. It only seems that way b/c one party seems to take these issues seriously and pass laws that support those affected by one or a combination of them.
To those who have been sexually assaulted, raped, victims of domestic violence, itâs about our safety and possibly about life or death. Itâs about not being dismissed and minimized and condescended to. Or attacked, laughed at or judged.
Zuckerburg, Sandberg and exec team have been pretty consistent in their cluelessness over this and many other issues.
I would have thought that Sandberg, w/ her experience of her husbandâs sudden death, would have empathy for the pain of othersâŚbut apparently not.
Well, the Millennials over at Facebook are going to see if they indeed have any muscles to flex. I hope so.
Unfortunately they are instead turning to Instagram, which has an identical leadership issue.
Because, you know, it is also owned and run by Facebook.
I looked into joining Facebook once, awhile back, but I could never get it to sync with my fax machine.
try routing the modem through your palm pilot
No, no, no. It only works if you route it through your pager.
dang, youâre right. Iâll mimeograph your instructions and put them on the bulletin board for the rest of the staff
Well, I mean, you could, or you could just throw it up on the overhead projector.
Or your pager.
Ha! Beat me to it!
I did.
And I agree - everyone needs to.
But first, I have to print out my emails so I can read them.
You can print emails from a typewriter?
This thread is hilarious - yâall are hilarious.
Isnât Instagram also part of Facebook? If so, we will have to quit both.