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Whatever you think of FB politics (which I'm not sure how much influence she has), ops wise she has done an outstanding job at FB to make it run.


What are you talking about? She is the face of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.


And Facebook/Meta has come out of all that with even more revenue than before. I call that a business success even if not an ethical success.


So an outstanding job just requires business to flourish, doesn't matter the means? I really don't agree with that.


In a capitalistic system - yes. She’s won and there’s fuckall you can do about it.

If you wanna play by a different set of rules - gotta change the entire landscape. No one is going to do that.


It's just sad that people spout this as an absolute unchangeable truth. She's won financially, completely lost morally and ethically. As a human she's a failure, as a capitalist she's a winner.

Yes, it is the system, does not mean I will call that an outstanding job because we focus on one metric: profit/making money. It's pretty stupid to reduce existence to these terms because of an economical system.


What does this mean to you? I'm actually not sure what the actual impact of CA was (Democrats claim it got Trump elected?) I also have no idea what her personal culpability is - it seems possible that FB had a leaky walled garden, and then their standard ad targeting mechanisms were used to achieve aims orthogonal to democracy?




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