A New Meta Whistleblower: Arturo Bejar returned to Facebook to help make Instagram safer for teens. When he discovered the disconnect between what the company thought it was doing and what teens actually experienced such as unwanted sexual contact, to no surprise the executives and managers didn’t want to hear it or do anything about it. (Sorry for the paywall. Breaking news exclusive to WSJ) https://www.wsj.com/tech/instagram-facebook-teens-harassment-safety-5d991be1
“But Bejar’s efforts to share the Well-Being Team’s data and conclusions beyond the company’s executive ranks hit a snag. After Haugen’s airing of internal research, Meta had cracked down on the distribution of anything that would, if leaked, cause further reputational damage.” [continued]
“With executives privately asserting that the company’s research division harbored a fifth column of detractors, Meta was formalizing a raft of new rules for employees’ internal communication. Among the mandates for achieving “Narrative Excellence,” as the company called it, was to keep research data tight and never assert a moral or legal duty to fix a problem.”
If any newcomers are looking for a smaller screened instance to join, check out https://federate.social as we have available capacity and are well-federated to provide an excellent timeline for our members. #TwitterMigration#FediTips
TFW your mastodon app works also works on bsky so you're switching between ActivityPub/Mastodon and AT/Bluesky servers in a single UI/UX on @ivory over Skybridge by @videah cc @activitypubblueskybridge
:drake_dislike: On one hand having to blast spammers is annoying.
:drake_like: On the other hand it does mean that a precious ad-free zone badly wants to be penetrated precisely because it is rare and valuable in this world and we own it. Let’s keep defending it. Thanks to members for issuing reports, thanks to admins for forwarding them to the attacked sources. Together we will defeat the pernicious pollution of #cryptospam
@mattblaze will be interesting to see if Congress will find itself needing to eventually spin up its own instance to host Senate and House dot gov accounts
Just noticing that the big instance mastodon.social has defederated with brands.town for spam even though it’s making the rounds as a parody. #fediblock
Associate Professor and Associate Program Director at #Parsons School of Design at #TheNewSchool and subject of #TheGreatHack doc on #Netflix for suing #CambridgeAnalytica to recover my data in the UK. #DataRights Formerly at https://mastodon.social/@profcarroll Admin of https://federate.social@davidcarroll.org on #Bluesky#fedi22 #searchable :verified: :boostok: :hehim: