come for hiring a private investigator to dig through Microsoft’s trash, stay for Peter Thiel’s prediction about Facebook being regulated from Feb 2009https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-dirty-tricks-nothing-new-tech/ …
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@DavidKirkpatric's The Facebook Effect. some other marvels from the book: Mark Zuckerberg on Beacon. "we were just so used to people complaining about things and then us eventually being right."
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This is the black mirror tho. as I mentioned in my piece, FB grew internationally at the time using a tool that outsourced translation to users. Here is Kirkpatrick raising q's about Facebook's plans to moderate hate speech in Sri Lanka

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for context. this from June 2018:https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/facebook-staff-to-learn-sinhala-insults-after-sri-lanka-riots …
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the real irony of Sheryl Sandberg hiring Definers to look into Soros financial motives is the fact that big tech already pays to control public debate on how it should be regulated. Facebook's campaign this year was a bungled version of Google ~2011https://www.wired.com/story/facebooks-dirty-tricks-nothing-new-tech/ …
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Kim-Mai Cutler Retweeted Maybe: Fred Benenson
I liked this thing @fredbenenson quoted from @hunterwalk. Eventually, your lack of understanding of civil society and history will catch up with you. Facebook just had longer bc it wasn't as obviously tied up in meatspace initially.https://twitter.com/fredbenenson/status/1068542503513665536 …
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