Month: February 2021

https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-facebook-execs-silenced-an-enemy-of-turkey-to-prevent-a-hit-to-their-business

Turkey was demanding the social media giant block Facebook posts from the People’s Protection Units, a mostly Kurdish militia group the Turkish government had targeted. Should Facebook ignore the request, as it has done elsewhere, and risk losing access to tens of millions of users in Turkey? Or should it silence the group, known as the YPG, even if doing so added to the perception that the company too often bends to the wishes of authoritarian governments? It wasn’t a particularly close call for the company’s leadership, newly disclosed emails show. “I am fine with this,” wrote Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s No. 2 executive, in a one-sentence message to a team that reviewed the page.

Propublica

Money
Can have strange effects
I ask myself
Is it a sin
To be flexible
When the boat comes in
Open the window and out go ideals

Flexible

Maybe the YPG was dangerous terrorist anyways. Facebook have many enemies

Now posts, pages and groups containing such falsehoods will be removed from the platform entirely. “Building trust and confidence in these vaccines is critical, so we’re launching the largest worldwide campaign to help public health organizations share accurate information about Covid-19 vaccines and encourage people to get vaccinated as vaccines become available to them,”

https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/02/08/1920221/facebook-says-it-plans-to-remove-posts-with-false-vaccine-claims