Such scenes of personal degradation are lurid enough, but Wynn-Williams also had a front-row seat to some of Facebook's most ignominious episodes.
In the lead-up to the 2016 election, Facebook employees embedded with the Trump campaign helped it micro-target potential voters, feeding them bespoke ads filled with "misinformation, inflammatory posts and fundraising messages." (The Clinton campaign declined Facebook's offer to embed employees.) The following year, in Myanmar, a country heavily reliant on Facebook, hateful lies propagated on the platform incited a genocide against the minority Rohingya ethnic group.
Article in the NYT about the book about facebook that meta is working to suppress.
If you want help getting off of facebook, instagram, threads and whatsapp, let me know; I’d be happy to help […]
[Original post on mastodon.online]