Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content
theguardian.com
A leading psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm has quit her role, accusing the tech giant of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram, repeatedly ignoring expert advice and prioritising profit over lives.
This has been a general trend at Facebook/Meta since employees first started becoming aware of the problems
1: people are harmed or harm others through and because of the company
2: one or more employees make the higher ups aware of the problem, oftentimes suggesting specific solutions that would dramatically decrease the frequency and severity of the problem.
3: the media find out
4: Zuckerberg himself or a spokesperson makes a statement to the press about how "Meta takes these things very seriously and are working on solutions"
5: Zuckerberg vetoes every solution that would result in decreased engagement and therefore ad revenue
6: employee(s) get replaced or resign
7: back to 1: and repeat forever
We need to put this in the focus. Advertisiers decided to pull out of twitter because they don't want to have their products associated with some nazi "the jews did 9/11" consipracies or so. Why do they want their products to be associated with "Debby, 15 years old killed herself because of self harm content on instagram"?
The company that erodes democracies around the world through aggressive lobbying (aka bribing) puts profits over people? I am shocked, I tell you! But sarcasm aside, props for actually warning the world about her former employer. I am sure she really did think she could make a difference from the inside of this morally bankrupt corporation at one point.
Can't spell metastasize without META.
META: It's like cancer, but for the Internet!