Inside Facebook The Day Before The Presidential Election (buzzfeednews.com) 76
An anonymous reader shares a report: Less than 24 hours before a historic US presidential election day, Nick Clegg, Facebook's vice president of global affairs and communications and the former United Kingdom deputy prime minister, tried to rally employees at the embattled social networking corporation. Noting that the world would be watching the results, Clegg published a post on an internal message board about the work Facebook employees had done to prepare for the vote. Many things had changed since 2016, he said, alluding to an election in which Russian state actors used Facebook to sow discord, while the company and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood by oblivious. "We have transformed the way we approach elections since the U.S. presidential election four years ago," Clegg wrote in the note titled "READY FOR ELECTION DAY." "Thanks to the efforts of far, far too many of you to mention by name, Facebook is a very different company today." It is indeed. Roiled by months of internal scandals and high-profile failures, the social network giant heads into Election Day with employee morale cratering and internal political discussion muzzled on internal message boards.
While Clegg took an optimistic tone in his post, Facebook released results of an internal survey on Monday that revealed a stark decline in employee confidence over the past six months. Its semi-annual "Pulse Survey," taken by more than 49,000 employees over two weeks in October, showed workers felt strained by office shutdowns and were continuing to lose faith that the company was improving the world. Only 51% of respondents said they believed that Facebook was having a positive impact on the world, down 23 percentage points from the company's last survey in May and down 5.5 percentage points from the same period last year. In response to a question about the company's leadership, only 56% of employees had a favorable response, compared to 76% in May and more than 60% last year. (A Facebook employee acknowledged in the announcement that the uptick in May's Pulse results were "likely driven by our response to COVID-19," which was widely praised.)
While Clegg took an optimistic tone in his post, Facebook released results of an internal survey on Monday that revealed a stark decline in employee confidence over the past six months. Its semi-annual "Pulse Survey," taken by more than 49,000 employees over two weeks in October, showed workers felt strained by office shutdowns and were continuing to lose faith that the company was improving the world. Only 51% of respondents said they believed that Facebook was having a positive impact on the world, down 23 percentage points from the company's last survey in May and down 5.5 percentage points from the same period last year. In response to a question about the company's leadership, only 56% of employees had a favorable response, compared to 76% in May and more than 60% last year. (A Facebook employee acknowledged in the announcement that the uptick in May's Pulse results were "likely driven by our response to COVID-19," which was widely praised.)
Only way Trump can win... (Score:4, Funny)
...is to steal the election using Russians and Facebook. I mean, no one is even attending his rallies. Everyone prefers Biden!
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It's amazing how many of the people boarding up their businesses are willing to vote for the people burning them down.
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As opposed to the people who support the con artist and his supposed law and order who are working to intimidate people into not voting or suppress their vote in the first place. Or, for that matter, attempt to run an opponent's bus off the road.
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No, they haven't. No such report exists. In fact, the only thing mentioned about a support vehicle was when it was hit by one of the ISIS-wannabes. Show your proof. Or like the con artist, do you not want the truth to known?
But cool lie, bro.
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I'm sure that Boogaloo [go.com] was voting for Biden, as was that white supremacist [go.com].
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Nobody tried to run anyone off the road. They just boxed the bus in and the fender bender was probably the bus drivers fault.
As far as voter intimidation goes you are what referring the officially authorized poll watchers being turned away illegally, so the democrats in Philly can rig the election in private? That intimidation. Not one of the votes in that county should be counted at this point, hopefully the courts will see to that, or just as well the legislature will simply assign the electors, rather t
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Try again. No one was turned away from polling places [phillyvoice.com].
Not one of the votes in that county should be counted at this point, hopefully the courts will see to that,
The courts already decided. See above. Nothing like hearing people deliberately working to intimidate people into not voting or suppressing people's votes whine when they can't get their way.
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Biden was burning down businesses?
Re:Disable groups and sharing from the timeline (Score:4, Insightful)
His supporters on the Far Left were...yes.
You know, the groups he won't say negative things about...
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His supporters on the Far Left were...yes.
Heh. No, they aren't. Facebook memes are not sources.
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All of those businesses out there boarding up their windows are NOT trying to protect them from Trump or Trump supporters.
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All of those businesses out there boarding up their windows are NOT trying to protect them from Trump or Trump supporters.
The Trump Administration made several moves to sabotage the electoral process. I'm curious if your news sources are even telling you about that or if that's okay because you might get what you want.
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Well, they are trying to sue states and all that are trying to handle this election outside of the laws that are on the books and in force at this time.
If someone is trying to change the rules of the game in the middle of the game, that is a justifiable area for litigation.
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If someone is trying to change the rules of the game in the middle of the game, that is a justifiable area for litigation.
Yup. There's litigation going on right now about the USPS, trying to undo what the Trump Administration did to it.
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All of these folks boarding up, barricading business entrances are not in fear of rioting Trump supporters regardless of which way the election goes.
It's not trump supporters out there rioting, breaking into businesses, looting and burning cities.
Watch the footage of all the looters running around stealing and destroying in those stores, I"m guessing you'd be hard pressed to pick out the trump supporters.
Not a lot of MAGA hats or shirts in there stealing and burning.
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I'm not seeing a lot of Biden paraphernalia either. Do you have sources of their political associations besides your ass?
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And here I am with any mod points.
This is one of the funniest things I've seen all day.
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You verified their voting history?
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It's amazing how many of the people boarding up their businesses are willing to vote for the people burning them down.
It's amazing how many people see Trump Administration sabotaging the electoral process then grumble that the real problem is American citizens standing up against it.
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Its amazing how many dipshits think a bunch of thugs looting a Walmart is "standing up against the Trump admin".
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And you're not worried at all about voter intimidation.
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sufficient moderation capabilities
That probably depends on who is defining "sufficient". It is almost certain that Facebook wants more chaos rather than less as long as the economic value of that exceeds the damage to their image. That latter can be managed to an extent so it is a fairly subjective evaluation that be done only by Facebook insiders. I expect their capacity for moderation has been built around that evaluation.
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If Trump loses, he goes to prison? (Score:2)
People have told me that Trump supporters use Facebook as their news.
In the entire history of the world, no one has been accused of so many different abuses as has President Trump. Trump supporters need to answer the stories. They almost never do. Why? A friend told me that he listens to radio when he drives across the U.S. to where he was raised. He said the news in the center of the country is entirely different than on ABC, CBS, a
Big tech is dirty and (Score:1, Troll)
Quality of Life is better with less big tech and celebrity crap.
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(1) Record turnout is "just not possible" and fraud,
(2) Citing faked videos ("Hello Minnesota") being disseminated by the propaganda machine,
(3) Singling out a candidate as "geriatric" as if they aren't all the same age
(4) Hillary Hillary
As collateral damage, it functions as a defense of Facebook. A master class on sowing division and chaos. Shill confirmed.
Meanwhile, back in reality, the Republican party is in court trying to get the vote I cast on Friday thrown out [businessinsider.com], along with 10% of the voters who respon
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Were these votes cast in a manner prescribed by current law that is in force?
If not, then, there's a legitimate reason to sue and try to have those thrown out...by either party.
You can't change the rules in the middle of the game.
Next time around, well, you have time before then to alter the game rules,
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And trying to change the rules in spite of the existing law that are in force on the books at the last minute is disgusting too.
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Were these votes cast in a manner prescribed by current law that is in force?
The state Supreme Court thinks so. And no one is remotely questioning whether they are real ballots, cast honestly by real, eligible voters, properly registered and identified. Quibbles over the definition of a "structure" don't do anything to ensure the integrity of the vote or how well it represents the will of the people. And, I repeat, the state Supreme Court thinks the voting tents are fine.
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And there you go. They went to court. They were heard. Justice was served.
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And there you go. They went to court. They were heard. Justice was served.
You haven't followed the whole story :-)
After failing in state court, they went to federal court. They were rebuffed again there (yesterday), but are appealing.
But even if the courts do the right thing all they way up both hierarchies, state and federal, they really should be ashamed for even trying. Many election suits make sense, and do serve the public interest by making the count more accurate. If this action succeeds it will only make the count less accurate.
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Well why should they not? It isnt as if democrats have not been running around for the last 6months using covid as an excuse to run the courts to invalidate long standing state election rules so they can things like count ballots without matching signatures, count ballots that are not mailed on time, count ballots that don't meet whitness requirements, etc..
But you are completely cool with destroying the objectively weak election security we do have because you know perfectly well fraud benefits your side.
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Meanwhile, back in reality, the Republican party is in court
You could stop the nonsense right there. They are in court. They are not out in the streets harassing people or burning down buildings. They are using the LAW. If your vote was cast according to the laws on the book, you don't have a worry. Otherwise, why would we want to be impacted by your illegal vote?
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And how does a voter determine which polling locations are legal? Do we consult a lawyer first?
Not even Facebook trusts Facebook anymore! (Score:2)
Don't Ruin It For Me... (Score:4, Funny)
Does Facebook make you suicidal? (Score:2)
Was it Lenny Bruce who told people who work in advertising to kill themselves? Or another comedian?
Anyway, I'm pretty sure that if he was still alive, he would add Facebook and Twitter employees to the list. Probably googlers and Amazon employees, too. Or are they all the same, since it's all about the advertising?
I was deliberately vague in the Subject, because there is plenty of evidence of social media causing suicide. The sad story of Hana Kimura is still in my mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] On
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It was Bill Hicks, though I'd argue he was the Bruce's heir.
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Thanks, I should have been able to remember that. I was only sure that whoever said it was dead. Bill Hicks was the one who died young of cancer...
Now I'm seriously wondering about suicide statistics related to social media or working at social media companies. It would be an interesting recruiting pitch to note "And our company's employees have the lowest suicide rate of any company in the SNS business." But my solution approaches would still focus on MEPR...
Much simpler solution (Score:3)
All FB had to do was say they would allow no postings, of any kind, 24 hours before and after election day. You would still see ads and could review whatever existed, but nothing new.
But that would be too simple and as I've said before, KISS is dead.
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Actually, if they would do this FOREVER, the world would be a MUCH better place.
Sigh. (Score:1)
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You have some odd fantasies.
Wait what? (Score:1)
"Only 51% of respondents said they believed that Facebook was having a positive impact on the world"
How does anyone think Facebook has any positive impact on anything?
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