#also facebook

[technologyvoid]

morning!

Heyo!

[yael-things]

my dad fangirling over mark zuckerberg rn and im here like BRO im tryna explode that guy with my mind...

[silberescher]

What they say: I hate drama

What they mean: I'm too emotionally delicate to approach or acknowledge personal conflict in any form

[teryster]

whazzup

Little notice that I got not one new job, but two and I’m barely at home rn - if you see me posting something or liking your posts but not commenting, it’s because I get on internet only from my phone and i SUFFER AT BEING VOICELESS hello mutuals pls imagine i comment big fat “♥♥♥ LOVE YA BEAST” on every personal post or message you send me (until i actually get to it) @humantrampoline85 @paladinical @dreadhalla @imrisah @saniika @batbiscuit @lesoldatmort and the rest of ya fab ppl the eruri smut contest that was completely improvised bcs i have no self control is queueueued and still O N

[oberstcult]

Are there any updates on the whole Conor/Phoebe situation? You were the first place I heard about that whole thing so I figured you'd know if anybody did lol

Ahh sorry I’m not really sure, reddit definitely knows best! I can definitely say it’s clear they are close and care for one another! It’s highly possible they live together, but check the reddit, not sure if they want me to post it because it’s private but send a message if you want to know. 

[but-how-do-you-drive]

kinda feel like i should give up tumblr for Lent 🤔🤔

[transpondster]

Facing Facebook's Failure - Techonomy

Facebook is a broadcast platform for anyone, including those who would break the rules, fake the news, lie, and mislead the community. Societies around the world are reeling from the consequences. Politics and democracy are under duress. And thus far, Facebook does not have an effective way to fight back.

Over time, he says, the company’s response actually became worse than nothing. By 2018 Facebook had finally hired at least some moderators in Sinhala, the language of the mostly Buddhist people who constitute the Sri Lanka’s majority. But they were not doing their job. A series of false and incendiary posts on Facebook demonized the country’s Muslim minority and helped precipitate a horrific outbreak of ethnic fighting. “At the height of the violence, a Facebook post called for a pregnant mother to be killed—it was very explicit—‘cut open her womb and kill her unborn children like dogs,’” says Hattotuwa. “We complained, and Facebook got back a couple of days later and said it was perfectly fine. That said to us that not only was the company’s oversight insufficient, but that its moderators were themselves racist.” 

 Only when Hattotuwa and other activists in Sri Lanka and several other countries wrote a series of open letters to Mark Zuckerberg in the spring of 2018 did Facebook finally respond. (Here is the letter from Vietnamese activists.) Media heat was focused on the company because of congressional hearings where Zuckerberg was testifying, making the letters harder for Facebook to ignore. “The company did not want to look at what was happening beyond user growth,” continues Hattotuwa. “I get pissed off when Sheryl Sandberg and the company constantly repeat that they were slow to respond. That suggests they had identified the problem and for some reason did not do what they should have. But I saw no response at all until this past March. That to me is a moral failure.” 

 Asked about Hattotuwa’s story that Facebook didn’t remove a call to kill mothers and babies, Debbie Frost, who for over a decade has headed Facebook communications and public affairs outside the United States, acknowledged the company’s failure. “I can’t explain that to you,” she says. “I wish we had done a better job and not been so slow and had paid closer attention. He’s exactly right. Only recently have we been deploying the full weight of our integrity efforts to do a better job.”

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[swarthwhore]

why am i like this