Sources: Facebook internally showcased a feature for its Workplace chat product that allowed administrators to remove and block trending topics like “unionize”
During an internal presentation at Facebook on Wednesday, the company debuted features for Facebook Workplace …
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@public_citizen
@public_citizen
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Facebook is pitching a workplace chat tool to rival Slack. The tool allows administrators to block trending topics and words. The word Facebook *explicitly* used as an example? “unionize” https://theintercept.com/...
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@decarboxy
Zam
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Reminder to my fellow software engineers and PMs: you have an enormous amount of soft power in what the products you work on do and how they can be used. You can use that power. https://twitter.com/...
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@gregbensinger
@gregbensinger
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Did Facebook test this tool internally first? https://twitter.com/...
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@ttp_updates
@ttp_updates
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During an internal meeting, Facebook introduced features of Facebook Workplace, an office collaboration product. They highlighted the product's “content control” abilities and offered a very specific example of a word employers could blacklist: “unionize.” https://theintercept.co…
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@30_helens
ThirtyHelens
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Wow remember like two minutes ago when Zuck was like “twitter shouldn't be controlling political conversations” https://twitter.com/...
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@crawf33
Adrian
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facebook is like if the onion wrote a parody Evil Corporation https://twitter.com/...
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@businessinsider
@businessinsider
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Facebook designed a tool that would let employers blacklist words like ‘unionize’ in employee chats https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
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@kevincollier
Kevin Collier
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Should probably go without saying, but it's smart to conduct potentially sensitive conversations with coworkers over Signal, not on Slack or Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
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@jeffsussna
Jeff Sussna
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Meanwhile massive work from home is challenging the entire concept of management as control https://twitter.com/...
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@jessiechar
Jessie Char
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Mkay so let me get this straight Freedom of speech is a paid feature and unregulated And they're designing a system that encourages suppression of the voices of the working class Cool cool cool https://theintercept.com/...
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@greenhousenyt
Steven Greenhouse
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Facebook boasts that its new workplace chat product would let companies suppress i.e.censor words like “unionize” from employees' discussions. https://theintercept.com/...
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@slpng_giants
@slpng_giants
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There really isn't a more destructive force in our current environment than Facebook. https://twitter.com/...
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@emilygorcenski
@emilygorcenski
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Can we please keep the rioting thing going a little longer https://twitter.com/...
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@hshaban
Hamza Shaban
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During an internal presentation, Facebook debuted a feature for its workplace chat product allowing employers to remove & block specific topics that are trending in office chats. The topic chosen in the demonstration was “unionize,” the Intercept reports https://theintercept.com/…
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@daithaigilbert
David Gilbert
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It constantly amazes me the new and unique ways in which Facebook manages to shot itself in the foot..... https://twitter.com/...
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@theintercept
@theintercept
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The presentation discussed the “benefits” of “content control.” And it offered one example of a topic employers might find it useful to blacklist: the word “unionize.” https://theintercept.com/...