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Top Meta executive said the company's name change was a success because it beat out coverage of the 'Facebook Papers' revelations::Meta's Chris Cox explained to employees the company's rebrand succeeded in driving press coverage amid whistleblower disclosures.

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Anybody got a link to "The Facebook Papers"?

[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh fuck. I didn't know this was around the same time. I literally tell everyone about how shit FB is and this proves it 1000x.

If you have a daughter or are a daughter, you should hate meta. They're inspiring a generation of self hating women and they have the data to prove it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where does it say that in the article ? I wholeheartedly believe """meta"'" would do that, but I didn't see it mentionned here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do people even still use Facebook?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Kids hate it but they love Instagram

My gf (not a kid) is proud how she hasn't used FB in a year but she's on Instagram every day

Same Zuck shit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I deactivated for 4 years. Then I decided to see what people were up to, and I discovered my local Buy Nothing group and a number of groups for my action figure collecting, and those are honestly worth it for me. I did my best to limit what data I’m giving them, but not only do they make it Byzantinely difficult, other software keeps selling them my info. My ads were slightly less targeted for a couple of weeks, then reverted back to being scarily targeted. That said, while I hate the privacy issues, I really like the groups. Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago

Ya know what? He’s not wrong. I forgot about that for a while. I hate him a more now because it worked.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)

he knows we still call it facebook, right? like only propagandists call it 'meta'.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

Of course he knows, don't think these people are stupid. Still it limited the amount of news about the Facebook Papers by giving the press something else to write about. This post proves it even more.

And yet in the long run, they can make the name Meta stick, just by behaving like the renaming was a huge success and just ignoring everyone who calls the whole company Facebook.

If you like it or not over time Facebook will be just one of their brands, also probably not even the most attractive one.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They don't care whether you call it Facebook or Meta.
All they care about is that enough people were talking about the name change, so that they were distracted from the real controversy (which is the "Facebook Papers" revalations)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Seriously? How are you not getting the point of this article?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All in favor of disrespecting twitters new name?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Only X I know is Xzibit or RBX " - Kurupt, Calling Out Names

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Woah, the disrespect for DMX!! X gonna give it to ya for that one!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The song was basically a diss track aimed at DMX among others. Not sure if you were being sarcastic and knew that, but just in case you didn't. The previous section of the verse is "Motherfuck D, Motherfuck M"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Can't be forgetting Zero's partner, either.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can't imagine willingly working for a company this openly evil. Imagine sitting through an all hands like this.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some software engineers are fine with temporarily casting aside their morals in exchange for a north of 200k USD salary.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Software engineers (the ones who work in firms producing nonfree software) have little to no class consciousness since none of them actually have meaningful ownership of the code they produce. They are just laborers of a greater executive/shareholders' visions. This way, they get to deflect blame since they were "another cog in the machine."

Software engineers will not EVER push back on these companies because they have no hutzpah materially (worker ownership) or socially (Corporate mindshare). Opponents of free software correctly point this out but never go further than "i just need to make money."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why try to make enemies? I'm the kind of person you're talking about and I've absolutely pushed back and even left jobs over ethical issues.

No need to stereotype and create artificial divisions. We're on the same side.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, this and the other reply was helpful. What I said wasnt constructive and I apologize. This kind of thing just gets me super edgy and I channeled it in the wrong way. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Y'all made up... lol. Now unionize!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I mean you gotta eat. I dont work for meta but for an industry that is probably scum. I think what I do adds value to it being less evil. I also do the bare minimum and they pay me so I think thats a win-win.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

It wasn't a success because of that. People just don't care about the Facebook Papers and the Twitter exposes.

They either already suspected it, and this just confirms it, or they don't give a fuck, they just want a place to post inane statuses and talk to people, because it's social media.

Sadly they are sheep and they never will wake up.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes me wonder what absolute horrors Elon is getting ahead of, with Twitter's rename.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That is a good point worth considering.... Though I just think he wants to shove some Fintech in there and thinks the name X is "cool".

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Boycott META. Boycott billionaires.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Not being a Facebook user and only seeing some mentions of FB/Meta in thread like this I can confirm I haven't heard of the Facebook Papers. It rings a bell about some privacy violation stuff, but not a big one.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Jokes on him, the app is still called Facebook on my Android!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ever heard the criticism about some movie villains being “comically evil and unrealistic”? Well, tell those critics you’re sorry. Like even the MCU villains are realistic enough at this point. Matter of fact, Obadiah Stane is the perfect representation of one of these evil motherfuckers. That’s why he’s the scariest villain in the whole franchise.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't there a recent James Bond movie about some guy controlling the water supply, which was less bad than an actual dictator's plan?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like Quantum of Solace

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Thanks for bringing this to my attention

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