Jesus
Enraging read.
Two weeks later, a video featuring the speaker was widely shared on Facebook. Someone had manipulated the video, making it seem as if Ms. Pelosi was slurring her words.
On a Facebook page called Politics Watchdog, the video attracted two million views and was shared tens of thousands of times. From there, it was shared to hundreds of private Facebook groups, many of them highly partisan pages. Within 24 hours, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer and a former mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani, had tweeted the link, along with the message, “What’s wrong with Nancy Pelosi? Her speech pattern is bizarre.”
Executives, lobbyists, and communications staff spent the next day in a slow-motion debate. Ms. Sandberg said she thought there was a good argument to take the video down under rules against disinformation, but she left it at that. Mr. Kaplan and members of the policy team said it was important to appear neutral to politics and to be consistent with the company’s promise of free speech.
The conversations became tortured exercises in “what-if” arguments. Mr. Zuckerberg and other members of the policy team pondered if the video could be defined as parody. If so, it could be an important contribution to political debate. Some communications employees noted that the same kind of spoof of Ms. Pelosi could have appeared on the television show “Saturday Night Live.” Others on the security team pushed back and said viewers clearly knew that “S.N.L.” was a comedy show and that the video of Ms. Pelosi was not watermarked as a parody.
On Friday, 48 hours after the video surfaced, Mr. Zuckerberg made the final call. He said to keep it up.
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Zuck a deplorable? I never!
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They arent wrong to be having these debates. They are important questions.
Its just that they “somehow” find the wrong answer. Every. Fucking. Time.
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They aren’t really having debates or asking questions about what they should do. They are white boarding a plausible narrative to justify what they already know they will do.
The close calls should be like “do we let anti-vax people post” and “does Matt Gaetz get to have a Facebook page,” not “what do we think of people openly plotting a violent insurrection on Facebook.”
Zuck is an absolute monster, right up there with Murdoch and like Wayne LaPierre in the piece of shit power rankings.
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Wow this looks totally organic and spontaneous
https://twitter.com/edludlow/status/1413201586206101509?s=21
I too swing my arms when walking much like other humans of my species.
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Moves the needle further frombjust doing my job towards complicit.
Uhh…there’s another side to that coin there, chief.
No you don’t understand. Because it’s a “tech” company, they are doing the “disruption” which means everything bad about stuff isn’t bad anymore.
https://twitter.com/mattperault/status/1417858212435484677?s=21
https://twitter.com/mattperault/status/1417858213723181059?s=21
https://scienceandsociety.duke.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/CSTPBrief_PPAB_V8.pdf
Wat?
You see, a priest being a closeted gay man who uses gay dating apps while spending his life tormenting other LGBTQ people by way of propagating christianity is comparable to a McDonalds employee accidentally serving you a small fries instead of a medium. It’s not fair that we cancel the former individual while forgiving the latter institution. Also, Joe Biden can’t eat the jesus skin bread because he is a Democrat. That one is not forgivable.
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