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Pray for @edmundlee, who is getting flooded with calls from angry Trump supporters because the automated switchboard thinks "Op-Ed" sounds like "Ed."

A lot of campaigns with mass-texting programs let volunteers access their texting platforms with minimal training and almost no vetting. Guessing that will change!

*whispers* nobody answers their desk phoneshttps://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1037728144642506752 …

The news here is that Alex Jones is back on Facebook, just weeks after his ban. He's now posting in a private Infowars group that has 117,000 members and contains much of the same content that got the Infowars page shut down.

Tech workers will have an easier time than bankers, because the positive parts of their work are easily understood. (Everyone has a FB account and a birthday.) But the negative stuff weighs. And more importantly, it makes campus recruiting harder.

Another thing I remember from interviewing young bankers was the salience of social validation. Most bankers didn't quit because their consciences ate at them; they quit because it felt bad to say "I work at Goldman" at a party.

I have no idea how to measure the aggregate impact of Facebook. But I'll say that, for Wall Street, the good (efficient markets, access to capital) was mostly theoretical, while the harms (foreclosures, unemployment) became more concrete and visible. That's hard to maintain.

One refrain I've heard from inside FB is that the *aggregate* impact of Facebook is still good, despite well-publicized edge cases. Which is pretty similar to the stories I heard young Wall Street analysts telling themselves in 2010 to justify sticking around until bonus day.