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The Guardian has more coverage in this article, which was published at the same time:

"How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/12/facebook-...

It's interesting how Guy Rosen, a co-founder of the spyware company Onavo, is now Facebook's "vice-president of integrity":

> Facebook had “moved slower than we’d like because of prioritization” on the Honduras case, Rosen wrote. “It’s a bummer that it’s back and I’m excited to learn from this and better understand what we need to do systematically,” he added. But he also chastised her for making a public complaint, saying: “My concern is that threads like this can undermine the people that get up in the morning and do their absolute best to try to figure out how to spend the finite time and energy we all have and put their heart and soul into it.”

> Rosen had joined Facebook in 2013, when the company acquired his startup, Onavo, a mobile web analytics company that Facebook would go on to use to track usage of rival apps.

Details on Onavo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo

> It's interesting how Guy Rosen, a co-founder of the spyware company Onavo, is now Facebook's "vice-president of integrity"

Sounds like a bad joke.

Sounds like a perfect fit for Facebook.

Imagine Radiohead's Creep playing on the background and it fits perfectly.

I thought that song was originally written by Nine Inch Nails, or am I misremembering?

Edit: fellas I asked a question downvotes aren’t necessary

You are, it's a Radiohead tune. Though it sounds similar to "The Air That I Breathe" By The Hollies, but that song is from the 70s. NIN broke out a few years before Radiohead (Pretty Hate Machine was released in 1989 while Pablo Honey was released in 1993).

>Though it sounds similar to "The Air That I Breathe" By The Hollies

Wow you are right[1][2]. Very similar tone progressions.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7duPNQCp-w4 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk

> Edit: fellas I asked a question downvotes aren’t necessary

Hacker News has by far the weirdest downvote patterns of any forum I've used. I wouldn't pay much mind.

You are misremembering

> Guy Rosen, a co-founder of the spyware company Onavo, is now Facebook's "vice-president of integrity"

Isn't that just the perfect match, based on how Facebook defines "integrity"?

Strategically placed someone that would align with their values and goals while making appearances that they care about "integrity". This strategic placements of persons happens everywhere.

Wow this could be a lot more serious than I thuoght. People in the West need to realize that, in countries without free press, facebook is much more important for people, and probably the major source of news. And this girl appears to have been super-productive , which makes her firing suspicious imho. And not only that, i suspect many of the 'delays' will be found to be inside operations.

I think there will be more to this story as it unfolds. And this doesnt even cover twitter , which afaik does not even try to weed out trolls.

> It’s a bummer that it’s back and I’m excited to learn from this and better understand what we need to do systematically...

Corporate speak for, "Meh, whatevs".

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