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Facebook just fired its chief IT security officer over the disinformation stuff

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wonder if there's something to this recent onslaught of anti...
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  03/19/18
there's a trope among crazy leftists that facebook is part o...
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  03/19/18
would be the greatest thing accomplished by leftists since t...
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https://www.reddit.com/r/russiansfacebook/comments/81cjo3/up...
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  03/19/18
I've known Alex since @Stake days, will be curious to get ba...
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  03/19/18
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  03/19/18
he was the fall guy this whole cambridge analytica kikery...
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  03/19/18
unless more details have come out what expand on what was be...
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Date: March 19th, 2018 6:42 PM
Author: Slap-happy stimulating library legal warrant

Facebook’s chief information security officer, Alex Stamos, will leave the company after internal disagreements over how the social network should deal with its role in spreading disinformation, according to current and former employees briefed on the matter.

Mr. Stamos had been a strong advocate inside the company for investigating and disclosing Russian activity on Facebook, often to the consternation of other top executives, including Sheryl Sandberg, the social network’s chief operating officer, according to the current and former employees, who asked not to be identified discussing internal matters.

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After his day-to-day responsibilities were reassigned to others in December, Mr. Stamos said he would leave the company. He was persuaded to stay through August to oversee the transition of his duties because executives thought his departure would look bad, the current and former employees said. He has been overseeing the transfer of his security team to Facebook’s product and infrastructure divisions. His group, which once had 120 people, now has three, the current and former employees said.

Mr. Stamos would be the first high-ranking employee to leave Facebook since controversy erupted over disinformation on its site. His departure is a sign of heightened leadership tensions at the company.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, Ms. Sandberg and other company leaders have struggled to address a growing set of problems, including Russian interference on the platform, the rise of false news, and the disclosure this past weekend that 50 million of its user profiles had been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company that worked on President Trump’s election campaign.

Facebook did not immediately have a comment.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640273)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:18 PM
Author: Vibrant Irate Double Fault

wonder if there's something to this recent onslaught of anti-facebook news in the MSM media. Maybe the powers that be want to stamp out Zuck from running?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640508)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:43 PM
Author: histrionic drab chad

there's a trope among crazy leftists that facebook is part of the russian collusion because a russian billionaire owns a fraction of it and was/is on the board of directors. I wouldnt be surprised if FB winds up having increased media scrutiny and maybe even a boycott or what have you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640722)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:11 PM
Author: vivacious kink-friendly piazza

would be the greatest thing accomplished by leftists since terminal velocity en route from a chopper

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35641394)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:46 PM
Author: histrionic drab chad

https://www.reddit.com/r/russiansfacebook/comments/81cjo3/upuffinfitnesss_amazing_analysis_on_the_russian/

https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/801zzc/a_former_manager_at_the_russian_troll_factory_is/dusx1tc/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640744)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:29 PM
Author: swollen mauve pozpig

I've known Alex since @Stake days, will be curious to get backstory on this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640603)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:45 PM
Author: self-absorbed smoky stage

Plz dish when you can ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640732)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:46 PM
Author: Up-to-no-good trailer park therapy

he was the fall guy

this whole cambridge analytica kikery is more fake news trust me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640739)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:48 PM
Author: swollen mauve pozpig

I don't even see how that falls under his domain; as far as I can tell, FB sells data to "academics" and basically a company got smart and just used one as an intermediary/strawman buyer. If anything, it's whoever runs that program who is at fault for not vetting the buyer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640760)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:58 PM
Author: Fuchsia floppy windowlicker

unless more details have come out what expand on what was being claimed the other day, it appears that:

- CA hired an academic to produce psychographic profiles

- this happened years before the trump election or brexit

- the academic did so using a legitmate online quiz

- the academic, as they are known to do, sent CA the supporting data along with his research

- the data included personal information on about 270K people who took the quiz

- this was a violation of the FB TOS, which led to everyone deleting the data after it was found out

- angry bitter attention seeking gay man runs to paper, trying to screw his former employer with this years later

- NYT runs a story trying to conflate the old story about 270K profiles sent over years ago with data on 50M voters gathered legitimately by CA using the same processes as every other political campaign - and every other major advertiser on planet earth

- trump is evil



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640836)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:52 PM
Author: Fuchsia floppy windowlicker

the cambridge stuff seems entirely bogus

you could get a sense of the minor underlying details from the guardian story, but the NYT went full bullshit

i assume this is propaganda being fabricated out of some ((soros)) ngo to disrupt RNC data operations before the midterms



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640803)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:57 PM
Author: ultramarine diverse weed whacker genital piercing

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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM
Author: vivacious kink-friendly piazza



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Date: March 20th, 2018 2:28 PM
Author: Henna laughsome elastic band

I can't believe I would have dismissed this as conspiracy theory nuttery like 5 years ago

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35645900)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:45 PM
Author: Up-to-no-good trailer park therapy

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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:46 PM
Author: Up-to-no-good trailer park therapy

i love how the FAKE NEWS MEDIA is making a big deal about "disinformation on facebook". god i hate these snakes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640749)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 8:01 PM
Author: Peach provocative travel guidebook



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:13 PM
Author: vivacious kink-friendly piazza



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Date: March 20th, 2018 2:31 PM
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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:49 PM
Author: Sinister High-end Tanning Salon

Easily replaceable unlike, say, a chief diversity officer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640768)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:58 PM
Author: ultramarine diverse weed whacker genital piercing

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640837)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 8:09 PM
Author: Slap-happy stimulating library legal warrant



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Date: March 19th, 2018 8:19 PM
Author: Unholy giraffe

facebook's next chief security officer will be a non white male

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640965)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:12 PM
Author: vivacious kink-friendly piazza



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Date: March 19th, 2018 7:52 PM
Author: Silver Cheese-eating Karate

secret corporate meetings where decisions on how to shape public opinion are made

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35640796)



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Date: March 19th, 2018 8:02 PM
Author: Peach provocative travel guidebook

Goy, bye!

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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:07 PM
Author: naked site blood rage



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Date: March 19th, 2018 9:10 PM
Author: red party of the first part coffee pot

Of course the solution to all this is for Facebook to be run by threee letter agencies which is the whole point of this attack against it. They want Facebook subordinated under a mountain of regulations like Yandex and VKontakte in Russia and every Chinese website.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3923111&forum_id=2#35641380)