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posted by janrinok on Monday April 02 2018, @03:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the pretend-it-never-happened dept.

According to Facebook employees who spoke with the New York Times, staffers are also urging the company to hunt down the leakers who released the Bosworth memo.

If the report is accurate, the deletion of internal communications could have legal implications, including in an ongoing Federal Trade Commission investigation into the company’s data-handling practices. Destruction of internal documents was a partial focus of the FTC’s recent investigation of Volkswagen.

Bosworth’s memo continued catastrophic PR fallout following findings that the Facebook data of as many as 50 million users was wrongly harvested by the election consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. In the memo leaked Thursday, Bosworth wrote that “connecting people” should be the company’s driving goal, even if “it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies” or “someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.”


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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday April 03 2018, @02:41PM (1 child)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 03 2018, @02:41PM (#661962) Homepage Journal

    The problem with corporations is when they become monopolies or monopsomies. Or both. They can get as hard to escape as governments.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday April 03 2018, @09:58PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday April 03 2018, @09:58PM (#662197) Journal

    The problem with corporations is when they become monopolies or monopsomies.

    They'll still not be as powerful as governments which are powerful monopolies/monopsonies. In fact, most such monopolies will be due to the existence of government interference.