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Top Meta executive said the company's name change was a success because it beat out coverage of the 'Facebook Papers' revelations::Meta's Chris Cox explained to employees the company's rebrand succeeded in driving press coverage amid whistleblower disclosures.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Anybody got a link to "The Facebook Papers"?

[–] [email protected] 89 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh fuck. I didn't know this was around the same time. I literally tell everyone about how shit FB is and this proves it 1000x.

If you have a daughter or are a daughter, you should hate meta. They're inspiring a generation of self hating women and they have the data to prove it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where does it say that in the article ? I wholeheartedly believe """meta"'" would do that, but I didn't see it mentionned here.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Anything that doesn't require a subscription?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Use Bypass Paywalls Clean to get past most news site paywalls.

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Personally, I use Firefox and setup a new profile specifically for this extension and use Multi-Account Containers for each news site and uBlock Origin, too.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do people even still use Facebook?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Kids hate it but they love Instagram

My gf (not a kid) is proud how she hasn't used FB in a year but she's on Instagram every day

Same Zuck shit

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I can't imagine willingly working for a company this openly evil. Imagine sitting through an all hands like this.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some software engineers are fine with temporarily casting aside their morals in exchange for a north of 200k USD salary.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Software engineers (the ones who work in firms producing nonfree software) have little to no class consciousness since none of them actually have meaningful ownership of the code they produce. They are just laborers of a greater executive/shareholders' visions. This way, they get to deflect blame since they were "another cog in the machine."

Software engineers will not EVER push back on these companies because they have no hutzpah materially (worker ownership) or socially (Corporate mindshare). Opponents of free software correctly point this out but never go further than "i just need to make money."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why try to make enemies? I'm the kind of person you're talking about and I've absolutely pushed back and even left jobs over ethical issues.

No need to stereotype and create artificial divisions. We're on the same side.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, this and the other reply was helpful. What I said wasnt constructive and I apologize. This kind of thing just gets me super edgy and I channeled it in the wrong way. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Y'all made up... lol. Now unionize!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I mean you gotta eat. I dont work for meta but for an industry that is probably scum. I think what I do adds value to it being less evil. I also do the bare minimum and they pay me so I think thats a win-win.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Makes me wonder what absolute horrors Elon is getting ahead of, with Twitter's rename.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

Ya know what? He’s not wrong. I forgot about that for a while. I hate him a more now because it worked.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Boycott META. Boycott billionaires.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Jokes on him, the app is still called Facebook on my Android!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Not being a Facebook user and only seeing some mentions of FB/Meta in thread like this I can confirm I haven't heard of the Facebook Papers. It rings a bell about some privacy violation stuff, but not a big one.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

It wasn't a success because of that. People just don't care about the Facebook Papers and the Twitter exposes.

They either already suspected it, and this just confirms it, or they don't give a fuck, they just want a place to post inane statuses and talk to people, because it's social media.

Sadly they are sheep and they never will wake up.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ever heard the criticism about some movie villains being “comically evil and unrealistic”? Well, tell those critics you’re sorry. Like even the MCU villains are realistic enough at this point. Matter of fact, Obadiah Stane is the perfect representation of one of these evil motherfuckers. That’s why he’s the scariest villain in the whole franchise.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wasn't there a recent James Bond movie about some guy controlling the water supply, which was less bad than an actual dictator's plan?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sounds like Quantum of Solace

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Thanks for bringing this to my attention

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