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February 24, 2021
AOC owns Marjorie Traitor Greene
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1364650658004148228
February 24, 2021
Question about my employer
I work for a very large company and recently, for security purposes, they are requiring all employees to download security software on their personal mobile device to access their company laptops. Only a small number of upper level managers are provided with mobile phones that are paid for by the company.
Question: Is it reasonable or unreasonable for the company to require all employees to download software on devices they dont pay for in order to do their job? (Ill also add that the software requires a certain level of hardware and software that may cause some employees to incur an expense to upgrade their device.)
February 23, 2021
AOC thanks Texas public servants!
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1364020816086769669
February 22, 2021
Today is George Washington's birthday
February 21, 2021
"Mark Changed The Rules": How Facebook Went Easy On Alex Jones And Other Right-Wing Figures
Mark Changed The Rules: How Facebook Went Easy On Alex Jones And Other Right-Wing Figures
Facebooks rules to combat misinformation and hate speech are subject to the whims and political considerations of its CEO and his policy team leader.
Ryan Mac
Craig Silverman
In April 2019, Facebook was preparing to ban one of the internets most notorious spreaders of misinformation and hate, Infowars founder Alex Jones. Then CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally intervened.
Jones had gained infamy for claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre was a giant hoax, and that the teenage survivors of the 2018 Parkland shooting were crisis actors. But Facebook had found that he was also relentlessly spreading hate against various groups, including Muslims and trans people. That behavior qualified him for expulsion from the social network under the company's policies for "dangerous individuals and organizations," which required Facebook to also remove any content that expressed praise or support for them.
But Zuckerberg didnt consider the Infowars founder to be a hate figure, according to a person familiar with the decision, so he overruled his own internal experts and opened a gaping loophole: Facebook would permanently ban Jones and his company but would not touch posts of praise and support for them from other Facebook users. This meant that Jones legions of followers could continue to share his lies across the worlds largest social network.
"Mark personally didnt like the punishment, so he changed the rules, a former policy employee told BuzzFeed News, noting that the original rule had already been in use and represented the product of untold hours of work between multiple teams and experts.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/mark-zuckerberg-joel-kaplan-facebook-alex-jones
Facebooks rules to combat misinformation and hate speech are subject to the whims and political considerations of its CEO and his policy team leader.
Ryan Mac
Craig Silverman
In April 2019, Facebook was preparing to ban one of the internets most notorious spreaders of misinformation and hate, Infowars founder Alex Jones. Then CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally intervened.
Jones had gained infamy for claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre was a giant hoax, and that the teenage survivors of the 2018 Parkland shooting were crisis actors. But Facebook had found that he was also relentlessly spreading hate against various groups, including Muslims and trans people. That behavior qualified him for expulsion from the social network under the company's policies for "dangerous individuals and organizations," which required Facebook to also remove any content that expressed praise or support for them.
But Zuckerberg didnt consider the Infowars founder to be a hate figure, according to a person familiar with the decision, so he overruled his own internal experts and opened a gaping loophole: Facebook would permanently ban Jones and his company but would not touch posts of praise and support for them from other Facebook users. This meant that Jones legions of followers could continue to share his lies across the worlds largest social network.
"Mark personally didnt like the punishment, so he changed the rules, a former policy employee told BuzzFeed News, noting that the original rule had already been in use and represented the product of untold hours of work between multiple teams and experts.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/mark-zuckerberg-joel-kaplan-facebook-alex-jones
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