"Little to no vetting" may feel like it'll save execs some headaches—but you'll instead end up in history books, as part of horrible events.
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Replying to @zeynep
What would good vetting look like? From FB's perspective it just got them grief. Not defending them, but it's predictable.
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Replying to @AuerbachKeller
The same thing that makes them a 10-year company with $374 billion market cap makes them responsible, though, to do better.
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Replying to @zeynep @AuerbachKeller
They want "no grief", tiny workforce, don't scale content/policy people side to their size, and network-effects driven $$$$.
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Replying to @zeynep @AuerbachKeller
I'm terribly serious that if they scale trending globally, they will go down in history books in very ugly stories.
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Replying to @zeynep
I'm not sure that they will do it globally. The cost/benefit may not be there. But companies don't care about history books either.
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Replying to @AuerbachKeller
People do; and Facebook is run by people, and not that many of them and they aren't even beholden to Wall Street.
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Replying to @zeynep
I genuinely don't think scaring Facebook with the threat of being written about poorly in history books will work.
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Replying to @AuerbachKeller
Maybe not, but it's part of what might to happen. This will also soon hit EU laws; and maybe even raise liability issues.
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Replying to @zeynep
That's more likely to cause changes, but as seen with antitrust, EU dealings take forever to work themselves out. FB mostly unreined
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I'm genuinely hoping they'll hold back globally—whatever happens in English we'll notice and lower stakes. Not so elsewhere.
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