[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Senator Who Asked, "How does Facebook make money?"
Mitchell I. Wolfe
mwolfe at vinebrook.com
Tue Sep 28 12:36:35 PDT 2021
There was a series of articles earlier this month from a Wall Street
Journal investigation entitled the facebook files.
_01 Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a
Secret Elite That's Exempt [1]
_02 Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Many Teen Girls, Company
Documents Show [2]
_03 Facebook Tried to Make Its Platform a Healthier Place. It Got
Angrier Instead. [3]
_04 Facebook Employees Flag Drug Cartels and Human Traffickers. The
Company's Response Is Weak, Documents Show. [4]
_05 How Facebook Hobbled Mark Zuckerberg's Bid to Get America Vaccinated
[5]
_06 Facebook's Effort to Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids,
Documents Show [6]
-- Mitch
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 5:25 PM Mitchell I. Wolfe <mwolfe at vinebrook.com>
> wrote:
>
> I don't have a Facebook account and never have. Undoubtedly Facebook is
> keeping a digital dossier on me, and I cannot do much about it. Shadow
> profiles are one of the more intrusive methods that Facebook uses.
>
> -- Mitch
>
> On 2021-09-01 16:05, Robert Primak wrote:
>
> Engulf and Devour sounds more like the Microsoft motto -- Embrace,
> Extend, Extinguish -- which described their predatory business
> practices.
>
> Trickery to make you part with your personal information is widespread,
> and predates the Internet. It also happens in phone calls, emails and
> postal letters.
>
> The difference is that Facebook has built their business almost
> exclusively around this paradigm.
>
> -- Bob Primak
>
> On Wednesday, September 1, 2021, 02:29:44 PM EDT, Michael Alexander
> <mna.ma at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> In countless ways, the public is Zuckered, including many ways that
> Mitch didn't address. Do you remember the Mel Brooks movie that
> featured the corporation named Engulf and Devour? Facebook is much the
> same.
>
> It isn't simply that they've bought out - paying billions! - smallish
> companies that might have threatened their businesses. It's also the
> way they've wormed their way into countless 'respectable' businesses.
> Many, like PBS Evening News, urge people to "Like Us on Facebook"
> (why?). If you want to write a Comment on articles in Politico, Times
> of Israel, and other communications, you must do so through a Facebook
> account. The NY Times and some others let (but do not force) you to
> log in through Facebook or Google accounts, feeding their
> data-hoovering maws.
>
> I'm certain I haven't scratched the surface of the ways in which
> Facebook has engulfed and devoured our digital worlds - even the worlds
> of those of us who try to avoid contact with Facebook.
>
> - Mike Alexander
>
> On Wednesday, September 1, 2021, 1:02 PM, Mitchell I. Wolfe
> <mwolfe at vinebrook.com> wrote:
>
> Have you been Zuckered?
>
> _"To be Zuckered is to get tricked by Mark Zuckerberg-or more
> specifically, by his social media company, Facebook-for either
> financial gain or at the expense of your personal information."_
>
> There also a related term - Zucced:
>
> _"What is up with it is this: "zucc" or "zucced" is slang that
> people--especially people in meme groups--use on your social network,
> Facebook, to describe the takedown of their content for alleged terms
> of service violations. Your meme got deleted or your page got
> suspended? You got zucced."_
>
> Social media is toxic. Lots of the Silicon Valley avoid it and forbid
> their children from going there as well.
>
> -- Mitch
>
> On 2021-09-01 11:54, Robert Primak wrote:
>
> And Zuckerberg's response:
>
> https://twitter.com/i/status/983791899940130818
>
> In words:
> Orrin Hatch: How Does Facebook Make Money? Mark Zuckerberg: 'We Run
> Ads'
> https://www.mediaite.com/tv/orrin-hatch-how-does-facebook-make-money-mark-zuckerberg-we-run-ads/
>
> -- Bob Primak
>
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[1]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-files-xcheck-zuckerberg-elite-rules-11631541353?st=arqqugtmmetlcry&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
[2]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739?st=1mt0n557j122h1z&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
[3]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-algorithm-change-zuckerberg-11631654215?st=86d7d4o8ultqfh9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
[4]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-drug-cartels-human-traffickers-response-is-weak-documents-11631812953?st=sfd3y3xiqq7m8f4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
[5]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-vaccinated-11631880296?st=y9n0e5crjjs8lim&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
[6]
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-instagram-kids-tweens-attract-11632849667?st=46sqxzwu7ukqy31&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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