Meta Axes a Head of Global Community Development After He Appears On Video In Underage Sex Sting (techcrunch.com) 60
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has confirmed to TechCrunch that Jeren A. Miles, who had been a manager of global community development, is no longer employed by the company after a video went viral on YouTube, which was then reposted on Reddit and other sites, featuring him in a sting operation conducted by amateurs with the intent of catching paedophiles.
The two-hour video, posted by an amateur group called PCI Predator Catchers Indianapolis on its YouTube page, does not depict Miles caught in any sex act, nor admitting to any specific sex act, nor admitting to intending to carry out any sex act. And it is not clear what the legal ramifications of this will be, if any. But it does feature two people questioning Miles, who in the course of the interrogation admits to having graphic and inappropriate communications with a 13-year-old boy. It's a damning enough exchange that Miles has subsequently deleted his social profiles on sites like Facebook and Twitter, and -- whether he was fired or resigned voluntarily -- Miles has left his role at Facebook over the matter. "The seriousness of these allegations cannot be overstated. The individual is no longer employed with the company. We are actively investigating this situation and cannot provide further comment at this time," said a statement from a Meta spokesperson.
The two-hour video, posted by an amateur group called PCI Predator Catchers Indianapolis on its YouTube page, does not depict Miles caught in any sex act, nor admitting to any specific sex act, nor admitting to intending to carry out any sex act. And it is not clear what the legal ramifications of this will be, if any. But it does feature two people questioning Miles, who in the course of the interrogation admits to having graphic and inappropriate communications with a 13-year-old boy. It's a damning enough exchange that Miles has subsequently deleted his social profiles on sites like Facebook and Twitter, and -- whether he was fired or resigned voluntarily -- Miles has left his role at Facebook over the matter. "The seriousness of these allegations cannot be overstated. The individual is no longer employed with the company. We are actively investigating this situation and cannot provide further comment at this time," said a statement from a Meta spokesperson.
Oh. (Score:2)
So that is what is Meta is for!
Now I understand. :P
Re:Oh. (Score:4, Informative)
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"Zuck makes many mistakes but having employees doing ghastly things isnâ(TM)t one of them."
Good or bad, I don't think he had a "say" in this. It was probably solved at the "HR", "legal" and maybe "PR" departments level, no need to go to the "big boss" on something like this, except with a "For your information: we already did this" message.
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You left school teachers, coaches and friends of Jeffrey Epstein.
"Meta" is short for... (Score:5, Insightful)
..."Metastasize"
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It'll be darkly funny if the Facebook exec claims he was unaware of the kid's age, since his (former) employer probably knows more about the kid than the kid does himself.
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Thanks to COPPA, anyone under a certain age lied about their DOB when they created their social accounts. Meta likely does additional work to ensure plausible deniability to make sure they don't accidentally learn that this is the case so they don't lose out on all that ad revenue.
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Its a thing before meta is really a thing. You cant make this stuff up.
Re: "Meta" is short for... (Score:2)
That might have been funny when it was first written. Kind of.
But now that it gets posted in every Facebook story, it is long since dead. Let it go.
We got to write a song about not diddling kids! (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Are you saying "Boy's Soul?" 'Cause it sounds like you're saying "Boy's Hole."
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You seem to have mistaken /. for the Catholic Church. [wikipedia.org]
Burn any good books lately?
Re:Not supprising (Score:4, Informative)
Unchecked power leads to this kind of shit, regardless of political views.
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Any political inferences are left as an exercise for the reader, and will reflect the reader's beliefs, not mine.
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Indeed.
Also the epstein lists were quite diverse politically.
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[citation needed]
If you can make that assertion absent any evidence, go ahead. But it just detracts from your credibility score.
But as an LGBT activist [ussanews.com] that just doesn't seem to be logically consistent.
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Maybe use a source that isn't as biased and full of lies as... "USSA News | The Tea Party's Front Page."
I HATE to agree with A/C's . . . but . . . (Score:2)
In all seriousness now (Score:2)
When you look at zuckerbergs face, what's the first thing that springs to mind (ok AFTER baron vladimir harkonnen)?
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And here I was, thinking Data. Or more accurately from the point of view of the character, Lore.
Albeit with the personality of the weird shapeshifting alien thing from the dud of a film "The Specials" from 2000.
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He looks more like death from Bill And Ted's Unfortunate Sequel.
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The first one. Wasn't bad, i was making a joke. But there are to many sequels and reboots and do-overs all the time now that I've gone anti-sequel. If you have a good thing, then stop and don't keep squeezing the money and lifeblood from it. It's ok to have an end to the story. But anyway, Zuck looks like Death as played by william Sadler.
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Naw, Trump is a Family Man, the beloved of the evangelicals! He would never divorce his wives, never be attracted to his daughter, never slap the Trump(tm) label on his meat. The whole deal with the bus and the Bush brother was because he thought he was auditioning for a new reality prank show. He's so pure that he thinks "me too!" is an invitation.
Facebook (Score:1)
Shoulda renamed it to Facepalm.
"Meta" wasn't the first choice for the new name. (Score:3)
Incidentally, I hear they have banking [slashdot.org] there. Can casinos be far behind?
"Technically it's ephebophilia." (Score:1)
If you hired fewer Silicon Valley libertarians, you'd end up with fewer pedos in your organization. After all, libertarians are just Republicans that want to smoke weed and f*#$ twelve year olds.
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Libertarians don't create useful things because they don't understand how anything actually works. Which is why they're libertarians in the first place.
And I haven't confused anything. Whenever you get a bunch of libertarians together, they'll spontaneously start bitching about age of consent laws, no matter what the actual topic of conversation was.
Re: "Technically it's ephebophilia." (Score:1)
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I've never even been to either coast of the US except for stopping briefly in NJ on a connecting flight. I was born and raised in a largely agricultural red state. Check your priors.
It's not Liberty I'm opposed to, it's libertarians. Two thoroughly unrelated things.
Sink any lower? (Score:2)
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The position to me sounds like a fixer whose job was to go into countries that are thinking about regulating Facebook's activities and schmoozing with people in power in order to convince them to leave Facebook alone.
It's an exercise to the reader to consider what sorts of bookings are involved in this kind of thing.
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The titles are all just things. It starts off with "We like your pedigree, good family, you're from the right side of the Mississippi too. So before we hire your and give you this enormous salary, you gotta come up with a title for yourself so that this all looks legit." Then shortly after it's "Ok, Global Community Redevelopment sounds intersting, let's say we drop a couple letters for PR reasons. So do you want your business cards to be Bone, Eggshell, or Pale Numbus White?"
Dupe... or was this a forewarning? (Score:2)
Leaked Documents Reveal Facebook is Targeting Children as Young as 6 [slashdot.org]
Pedoverse? (Score:2)
Sexting (Score:2)
did anybody else got the joke?
Not A Fan of Vigilantism (Score:4, Interesting)
I don't normally post as AC, but I expect the following opinion may inflame some people.
I don't believe these type of "sting" operations run by amateur vigilante groups are a good thing. Let me relate a personal experience:
I am acquainted with a developmentally disabled adult (in his mid-twenties). He called me in a distraught state saying he was about to be evicted from his rental suite due to allegations revealed to his landlord by a local "creep-catchers" group. He had been chatting with someone online purporting to a young female, and agreed to meet somewhere in person. I don't doubt that at some point during there conversation the "girl" may have mentioned her purported age. I also doubt he was mentally capable of comprehending the ramifications. He is a simple, gentle, and friendly person, completely inexperienced with any type of sexual relations, but likely curious about such. I believe he was baited and led on, and obliviously walked into a meet-up with no ill intentions. He was pounced on by vigilantes, who immediately set out to publicize the situation and impose maximum retaliatory damage to his life and reputation.
The group in question is led by a questionable character, who has previously been instructed by law enforcement to cease this type of sting operations, which had already led to assault charges against him.
I reached out to the group to explain that their "perp" was a developmentally disabled person who is not capable of fully comprehending the situation. Their response was belligerent and sanctimonious. In fact, the overwhelming hostility with which they responded led me to suspect they may have been victims of child abuse themselves. In which case I feel sorry for them, but I do not agree with the way they wage their personal crusade.
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I think the point is that anyone with at least half a brain will assume that a supposedly underage person on the interwebs who claims to enjoy talking to older men is a cop or a vigilante. There's an old saying:
Welcome to the Internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents - and they're men.
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I know what you mean. I remember watching an episode of some TV show that was all about this, and one guy they "caught" was clearly only around 19 and he thought he was traveling to another state to visit a 16 year old. Yes, it was illegal and perhaps even creepy, but it looked clear to me that he was not popular with women and was really hoping that someone had finally taken an interest in him. 3 years of age difference would be no big deal at all if they were both adults, so it was probably easy to convin
The same thing happened to Subway (Score:1)
Companies hire people. Some people turn out to be pedophiles. That really isn't on Facebook unless they actively tried to cover it up and end up with Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org] about all the alleged abuses.
I supposed at the end of the day, it's another argument for automating workforces. Machines don't molest kids.
STFU (Score:4, Insightful)
"We are actively investigating this situation "
you're not the law, you're not the police, you're not even indirectly related to any legal system, shut the fuck up, you shouldn't be investigating anything and if you are, you should be held responsible for interfering with the legal process.
The Problem is Bigger (Score:1)
Now imagine that Jeffrey Epstein may have arranged video-recorded liaisons between underage minors and unknown thousands of influential people in business and government; and, rather than disclose it, he used it to blackmail for power. Imagine that this power was acquired on behalf of the nation state of Israel to achieve political control over other nations' actions and laws. You would then have a majority of the U.S. states and the federal government enacting laws that deny public funding or contracts to
For all the social posturing (Score:1)
Leftist, woke big tech seems to harbor a lot of pervs.
Common pattern (Score:2)
Somebod gets to big for their own britches, feels invincible, goes out to commit some serious felonies.
A really worn out real life trope.