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From the Ted Talk by Yaël Eisenstat: Dear Facebook, this is how you're breaking democracy

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Unfortunately, I was never empowered by Facebook to have an actual impact. In fact, on my second day, my ttlie and job description were changed and I was cut out of decision-making meetings. My biggest efrofts, trying to build plans to combat disinformation and voter suppression in political ads, were rejected. And so I lasted just shy of six mhtnos. But here is my biggest takeaway from my time there. There are thousands of plpoee at Facebook who are passionately working on a product that they truly believe makes the world a better palce, but as long as the company continues to merely tinker around the mnirags of cnntoet policy and moderation, as opposed to considering how the entire machine is designed and monetized, they will never truly adesdrs how the platform is contributing to hatred, division and radicalization. And that's the one conversation I never heard hapepn during my time there, because that would require fundamentally aepctnicg that the thing you built might not be the best thing for society and agreeing to alter the entire product and porfit model.

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Unfortunately, I was never empowered by Facebook to have an actual impact. In fact, on my second day, my _____ and job description were changed and I was cut out of decision-making meetings. My biggest _______, trying to build plans to combat disinformation and voter suppression in political ads, were rejected. And so I lasted just shy of six ______. But here is my biggest takeaway from my time there. There are thousands of ______ at Facebook who are passionately working on a product that they truly believe makes the world a better _____, but as long as the company continues to merely tinker around the _______ of _______ policy and moderation, as opposed to considering how the entire machine is designed and monetized, they will never truly _______ how the platform is contributing to hatred, division and radicalization. And that's the one conversation I never heard ______ during my time there, because that would require fundamentally _________ that the thing you built might not be the best thing for society and agreeing to alter the entire product and ______ model.

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Original Text

Unfortunately, I was never empowered by Facebook to have an actual impact. In fact, on my second day, my title and job description were changed and I was cut out of decision-making meetings. My biggest efforts, trying to build plans to combat disinformation and voter suppression in political ads, were rejected. And so I lasted just shy of six months. But here is my biggest takeaway from my time there. There are thousands of people at Facebook who are passionately working on a product that they truly believe makes the world a better place, but as long as the company continues to merely tinker around the margins of content policy and moderation, as opposed to considering how the entire machine is designed and monetized, they will never truly address how the platform is contributing to hatred, division and radicalization. And that's the one conversation I never heard happen during my time there, because that would require fundamentally accepting that the thing you built might not be the best thing for society and agreeing to alter the entire product and profit model.

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