Using employees instead of contractors because they produce higher-quality data sounds less clever after you leak the employees' data.
Havoc•Jun 23, 2026
Keyloggers collect sensitive data? Some really sharp insight coming out of FB HQ here
Stupid plan yields stupid results
jdpigeon•Jun 23, 2026
This leak coming after all the reassurances that the intitiative passed privacy review and wouldn't be a leak risk is soo damning.
Not only have the employees lost faith in the executive's integrity, but their basic competency as well.
Llamamoe•Jun 23, 2026
Does anyone, ever, have any faith in the integrity or competence of executives, these days? Because it seems to me that most people would outright prefer them to burn but are powerless against the increasing abuses and betrayals of employees.
notnaut•Jun 23, 2026
20% of the people will always just agree with the guy with the microphone.
12_throw_away•Jun 23, 2026
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CoastalCoder•Jun 23, 2026
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timmytokyo•Jun 23, 2026
It really makes you wonder why anyone still wants to work there. The only reason I can imagine people are staying is because they're afraid they can't get work anywhere else.
hawaiianbrah•Jun 23, 2026
It’s a terrible job market and they pay notoriously well.
ss4fff•Jun 23, 2026
No, the right framing is they are paid what they deserve.
The premium they get paid is for being treating like shit.
Anyone who has any sympathy for them is an absolute idiot.
patch_dev•Jun 23, 2026
Why aren't they deserving of sympathy? Crazy take and a massive lack of empathy.
stiglitz•Jun 23, 2026
Facebook is widely thought to cause significant societal damage; anyone who thinks so, would probably consider employees of Meta to be the ones lacking empathy.
pfannkuchen•Jun 23, 2026
So Facebook products are definitely not good for humans to use, sort of like cane sugar is not good for humans to use, but I wonder if you also think this about, I dunno, banks? They do vastly more predatory stuff with much bigger impacts. Nobody’s Facebook usage is affecting how much housing costs, for example. But for some reason there seems to be more outrage at social media companies. Odd!
Towaway69•Jun 23, 2026
If they do it, then we can do it too.
So lets bomb some sucker nation or assassinate folks we summarily don't like, without due process. F'k it, if they do it, then we can also do it.
How does that make anything better? It results in a degradation of societal values where morals and positive norms are assigned to the pages of history.
There was a time when positive examples, folks standing up and resisting was seen as a something good. Nowadays everyone just does it because the others are even worse. So who should start making the world a better place? The others.
jfrbfbreudh•Jun 23, 2026
Because they know what they are signing up for? I’ve only interviewed at Meta for practice even though I could earn ~250k a year more working there.
qsxfthnkp2322•Jun 23, 2026
This is true at all of big tech. Management class is assholes. It’s been like this for too long.
2OEH8eoCRo0•Jun 23, 2026
Money. It's not complicated.
snootypoot•Jun 23, 2026
i still laugh thinking that once, during my life, working for facebook was coveted and respected.
ChrisArchitect•Jun 23, 2026
Related:
Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models
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Hope this initiative fails spectacularly.
Stupid plan yields stupid results
Not only have the employees lost faith in the executive's integrity, but their basic competency as well.
I'm therefore proud to announce my new, AI-powered startup to help you navigate the modern privacy landscape. It's called Nope™. If you're concerned about privacy, make sure Nope™ is the first thing you think of.
It's easy to get started! Whenever you find yourself asking, "Is this company really storing my data securely?", your next thought should be: "Nope™"
The premium they get paid is for being treating like shit.
Anyone who has any sympathy for them is an absolute idiot.
So lets bomb some sucker nation or assassinate folks we summarily don't like, without due process. F'k it, if they do it, then we can also do it.
How does that make anything better? It results in a degradation of societal values where morals and positive norms are assigned to the pages of history.
There was a time when positive examples, folks standing up and resisting was seen as a something good. Nowadays everyone just does it because the others are even worse. So who should start making the world a better place? The others.
Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623721
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