Sarah Wynn-Williams had a front-row seat to some of Facebook’s most consequential (and controversial) moments. These are some of the most shocking claims from her memoir, Careless People.
Some of the most telling anecdotes in Careless People involve Kaplan, who joined Facebook’s policy team in 2011 and was promoted to Chief Global Affairs Officer earlier this year. She writes that Kaplan, who was a deputy chief of staff in the George W. Bush White House, was “surprised to learn Taiwan is an island” and that “often when we start to talk about pressing issues in some country in Latin America or Asia, he stops and asks me to explain where the country is.”
This almost seems difficult to believe, but considering the state of the world, I wouldn’t be surprised if it is true.
By now, Meta’s failures in Myanmar, where hate speech and misinformation on Facebook helped incite a genocide, are well documented. Wynn-Williams, who early in her tenure flew to Myanmar to try to sell officials there on the company’s connectivity projects, describes her futile attempts to get more resources for content moderation in the country.
She blames Kaplan in particular. She says she “started this long process of trying to hire someone for Myanmar in 2015” and found a human rights expert who fit the bill in May 2016, but Kaplan blocked her from making the hire in February of 2017. He allegedly told her to “move on and get over it.” She later concludes that “when it came to Myanmar, those people just didn’t matter to him.”
In a just world, Kaplan and Zuckerberg would be required to do mandatory multi-decade community service work as live-in junior janitors at major Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. For example, in Bhasan Char island.
There is an international court that is responsible for prosecuting individuals for crimes like genocide oder crimes agains humanity. It’s sensible to collect all evidence and put Zuckerberg & Co on trial to see how deep their involvement goes
He’ll get the kissinger treatment and be rolled out to ‘prestigious’ public events like olympic basketball in roder to shore up his credibility as a ‘great american’, (that the US gov even used an insulation strategy like this was a huge tell on their assessment of HK’s war crim status)
Perhaps you missed the headlines when the ICC called out Facebook for actively, deliberately obstructing the ICC genocide investigation into the Rohingya genocide.
Definitely, US courts lack institutional maturity for such cases.
There are presidents with war criminals in some African countries being tried in international court system due to challenges with local courts systems.
This almost seems difficult to believe, but considering the state of the world, I wouldn’t be surprised if it is true.
In a just world, Kaplan and Zuckerberg would be required to do mandatory multi-decade community service work as live-in junior janitors at major Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. For example, in Bhasan Char island.
I would prefer to send all of them to dig graves for the victims of various genocides and conflicts.
There is an international court that is responsible for prosecuting individuals for crimes like genocide oder crimes agains humanity. It’s sensible to collect all evidence and put Zuckerberg & Co on trial to see how deep their involvement goes
He’ll get the kissinger treatment and be rolled out to ‘prestigious’ public events like olympic basketball in roder to shore up his credibility as a ‘great american’, (that the US gov even used an insulation strategy like this was a huge tell on their assessment of HK’s war crim status)
Perhaps you missed the headlines when the ICC called out Facebook for actively, deliberately obstructing the ICC genocide investigation into the Rohingya genocide.
Definitely, US courts lack institutional maturity for such cases.
There are presidents with war criminals in some African countries being tried in international court system due to challenges with local courts systems.
30% of Americans were okay with bombing Agrabah, from Disney’s Aladin.
80% of Americans thought food labels should say if the food contains “DNA”…that 33 percent of respondents thought that non-GM tomatoes “did not contain genes” and 32 percent thought that “vegetables did not have DNA.” So there’s that.
A majority of Americans are dumb and all of those people are even dumber than you can imagine.
seems like they polled all boomers and rural folk.
I was refering to Kaplan specifically. Considering his background it seems a bit strange, but unfortunately very much believable. :(
These people should be permanently purged from the voter rolls.
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