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The article tries to make the story all about Facebook, when it basically just boils down to the fact that a (alleged, there is still due process required) pervert worked there. They didn't know about him, they weren't harboring him or anything, it's just a low level employee doing something inappropriate.

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The head of global community development is a low level employee?

> The head of global community development

The article says "a head", not "the head", and refers to him as "manager of global community development".

Of course I can't confirm this, but on one of the big Reddit threads on this topic an anonymous user claimed to be a Meta employee and looked this fella up, he managed 10 people. Just a low level people manager.

10 direct reports is very different from total downstream people. Feels unclear still

A manager of community development isn't even necessarily a people manager. That said, other people with a similar title at Facebook on LinkedIn do seem to be fairly experienced (although not really senior) so they may very well manage people.

I glanced through a cache of his twitter account. I would expect important industry leaders with twitter accounts would have larger following. I don't think this was a high level roll like the article described.

I'm not clear that somebody's ability to make funny tweets has a relation to their importance to a company or industry

Not every leader does things through the internet friend.

Probably, in much the same way as a vice president is a low level employee at Goldman Sachs. "Global community development" sounds to me like a team that was named to sound impressive, not a team that actually determines Facebook's global priorities.

Banking is a bad example. Anyone with 2+ years of experience gets a VP title.

That’s not very far off from how it works in this kind of subspecialty. Google had a controversy last year involving their “Global Lead for Diversity Strategy and Research”, who seems to have been just a random IC with no particular authority.

I made an assumption based on "manager" as his title. Usually they is way down in the hierarchy for big companies, I could be wrong in this case

title inflation. Banks have thousands of VPs

I am a numbers guy. How many bank VP is a kiddy diddler? I would venture, quite a bit.

> (alleged, there is still due process required)

He literally admits to it on the video.

Admitted, not alleged. Leave due process to the courts.

metamate pervert.

true but its not exactly the first time :

https://www.polygon.com/2016/12/27/14088862/cops-arrest-ocul...

FB has 72000 employees and many more former employees, so if this was the first time it would be miracle.

Is there any large company without bad people? There was a guy on my floor that was fired when he was busted by the police for child porn. I didn’t know him, but I have to assume he isn’t the only one at a company with tens of thousands of employees.

There was a somone at a defense contractor here in Cincinnati that piled a bunch of amunition in a wastebasket and set it on fire, hoping to cause a chaotic explosion. He felt bad and went screaming for everyone to leave the building after he lit the fire. Nice guy. Building was ruined. He got four years for it.

> doing something inappropriate

Accused of something inappropriate, but summarily fired anyway.

Well if we're being pedantic, he also admitted to that inappropriate (and illegal) act, which happens to be involving a child.

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