Discussion

• @brian_armstrong Brian Armstrong on x

  1/ I do worry that as companies get to be more successful, the number of attacks from press, politicians, and trolls on CEOs (and rounds of congressional testimony) makes the job not fun, and they leave from burn out. Gates, Page, Bezos...

• @mattdrange Matt Drange on x

  Whistleblowers have upended virtually every corner of Silicon Valley in recent years. The headlines are impossible to miss. But for many tech workers, *how* whistleblowers come forward is a mystery. A new handbook published today aims to change that: https://www.businessinsider.c…

• @klonick Kate Klonick on x

  We do need an agency, but it should never be in charge of misinformation, and at least as @gillibrandny summarizes it here, this would be wildly unconstitutional. https://twitter.com/...

• @counteringcrime Acco on x

  1/ Facebook whistleblower @FrancesHaugen's internal documents, memos and recent testimony prove what we have always known: That Facebook knows the harms that occur on their platforms and willfully ignore them, putting profits over public safety. https://www.youtube.com/...

• @juliacarriew Julia Carrie Wong on x

  Just pointing out a fact https://twitter.com/...

• @schwartzesque Mattathias Schwartz on x

  I don't want to say that Andy flat-out lied to me during our initial 2017 phone calls about Cambridge Analytica. So hard to know if spokespeople are being mendacious, or are just out of the loop. Regardless, nothing he says about a breaking crisis should be taken at face value. h…

• @ifeomaozoma Ifeoma Ozoma on x

  This Handbook is for workers but it's also for reports, consumers, policymakers, advocates. We ALL benefit when tech workers are better prepared to share information that's in the public interest. This week is perfect proof of exactly how critical it is to support whistleblowers.…

• @nikichristoff Niki Christoff on x

  Being a whistleblower is dangerous and expensive. @IfeomaOzoma: “Preparedness is power.” https://www.protocol.com/...

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  So I defended Haugen's stance on not breaking up Facebook as more coherent than it might sound. That said, here is a good @mattstoller piece that makes a very persuasive case that she is wrong. https://mattstoller.substack.com/ ...

• @ggreenwald Glenn Greenwald on x

  This “whistleblower” is telling Dems and corporate media everything they want to hear: namely, transferring control of social media to the government for “regulation” and censorship is the only way to solve the problem. FB sees the benefit in this, too: https://twitter.com/...

• @brianstelter Brian Stelter on x

  “The problem with Facebook is us. We've been weaponized against ourselves. Our personal data, our insecurities, our tribal tendencies, our fears. It's all bringing us down. We have become twitchy social media addicts ready to melt down or explode with the slightest provocation” h…

• @senjohnthune Senator John Thune on x

  Facebook users should be given more transparency & power over what info they're fed on FB. Users need to be empowered to make their own decisions about the content they want to see. https://twitter.com/...

• @bigblackjacobin Edward Ongweso Jr on x

  genuinely don't understand Haugen's anti-antitrust takes. she says FB has a long list of abuses, that it has reached a near trillion dollar valuation prioritizing profits over safety, that it cannot staff its own projects, but should stay whole and get a special agency for itself…