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Andrew Bosworth publicly releases his internal post on Facebook's role in 2016 election, Cambridge Analytica, polarization, algorithmic transparency, and more

The NYT recently obtained a copy of a post I made to the wall of my internal profile within Facebook.

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Discussion

  • @emilybell Emily Bell on x
    He must be going to see my mother...the only place I have been recently with genuinely intermittent access to the internet https://twitter.com/...
  • @telenardo Tim L on x
    “In practical terms, Cambridge Analytica is a total non-event. They were snake oil salespeople. The tools they used didn't work, and the scale they used them at wasn't meaningful. Every claim they made about themselves is garbage. Data of the kind they had isn't that valuable...”…
  • @sivavaid Siva Vaidhyanathan on x
    He's making us use Facebook again. Yeesh. https://twitter.com/...
  • @kentbye Kent Bye VoicesOfVR on x
    Glad to see @boztank post the full context of his memo leaked to the NYT. Still lots to disagree about, but it's an elaboration of the arguments that form their philosophical grounding. I wish Facebook engaged in more candid conversations on other topics like biometric privacy. h…
  • @brian_armstrong Brian Armstrong on x
    Well written 👏👏👏 Who knew, candid internal memos can work even better than PR scrubbed external memos! https://twitter.com/...