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On June 18, 2016, one of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbergs most trusted lieutenants circulated an extraordinary memo weighing the costs of the companys relentless quest for growth.
We connect people. Period. Thats why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it, VP Andrew Boz Bosworth wrote.
So we connect more people, he wrote in another section of the memo. That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies.
Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.
The explosive internal memo is titled The Ugly, and has not been previously circulated outside the Silicon Valley social media giant.
The Bosworth memo reveals the extent to which Facebooks leadership understood the physical and social risks the platforms products carried even as the company downplayed those risks in public. It suggests that senior executives had deep qualms about conduct that they are now seeking to defend. And as the company reels amid a scandal over improper outside data collection on its users, the memo shows that one senior executive one of Zuckerbergs longest-serving deputies prioritized all-encompassing growth over all else, a view that has led to questionable data collection and manipulative treatment of its users. You can read the full post below. Facebook was unable to provide comment at the time of publication.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data?bfsplash&utm_term=.atrPM1N3m#.aen6qY3Px
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(268,980 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)You don't have to be a rocket scientist (or tech nerd) to know that there is good/bad, yin/yang in everything. If Facebook thought that they were only promoting the "good" side of people they are either more ignorant than I thought or they are extremely good at self deception.