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The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨chobeat@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/the-wildest-details-in-the-facebook-memoir-meta-is-trying-to-bury-183310491.html

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Worth a read, one TL;DR is that Zuck is just as weird as all those unflattering pictures of him make him look

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    • melp@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No one in leadership roles should be allowed to be that out of touch.

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      • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I think once you’re in the leadership role you get to decide what people are allowed to do

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  • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Update, March 18, 2025, 1:57 PM PT: Wynn-Williams describes her tenure at Facebook as lasting seven years, beginning in 2011. But, according to a Meta spokesperson, she was fired in “late 2017.” This story has been updated to reflect that she worked at Facebook for “nearly” seven years.

    What possible reason is there to believe Meta’s side of the story here?

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    • skarn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But more importantly, who cares?

      I lived in my previous city for 9years 9m. I usually tell people I lived there 10 years, I don’t expect they’ll fell very betrayed when they learn the truth.

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      • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m actually in the same boat. I’m three months out from being here a decade, but as with infants, we start rounding at a certain point.

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      • sqgl@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Different cultures count differently. eg Jesus was not born in zero AD but in one AD. His whole first year of life he was considered to be in his first year.

        I think some countries count age this way too (hopefully someone can confirm to satisfy my nerdy curiosity).

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  • PaddleMaster@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t use any meta software and I haven’t heard anything about this. So clearly something is working. I will read this. Thanks for sharing!

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  • somegeek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Dude I hate meta and zuckerberg religiously but all of these points seemed like making a fuss about nothing to make profit. Most things here seemed pretty normal and expected for a company that big and it’s CEO.

    Now I’m speculating if all of this book and suing it’s writer is a psyops by meta to say “these are the worst things that they could come up with. These are as bad as it gets”

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    • Lumun@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This article does almost seem written to downplay the book’s most damaging claims. They buried the Myanmar story at the end and the detailed account the author gave to the carelessness with which the execs treated the riots and violence. Another anecdote missing from this article is how they are pushing weight loss and beauty ads to teen girls right when they delete a recently taken selfie and how execs responded when this was brought up. Not that that is news exactly as we already know Meta does that sort of thing

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  • mitrosus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Centennial liker here

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