Guy Rosen is Facebook ’s frailty president of Product Management . But when the company published an update about the Christchurch massacre in the middle of the night onWednesday , Rosen got a shiny new title : VP of Integrity . That is , until a diary keeper call Facebook out on the switch .
Guardian technical school journalist Alex Hern was apparently the only one to blemish the weird form of address modification because many news sites simply published Rosen ’s new title . Engadget , Venturebeat , andGlobal News Canada , all shout Rosen the VP of Integrity in stories about the Facebook announcement .
“ Facebook exec Guy Rosen is normally pertain to as ‘ VP of Product Management ’ , ” Hern saidin a tweet . “ Yesterday , his statement on Christchurch came as ‘ Head of Integrity . ’ I asked whether he ’d been promoted , and they silently cut the Emily Price Post back to ‘ VP of Product Management . ’ ”
“ Why must they be like this , ” Hern asked of Facebook in a follow - up tweet .
Indeed , Facebook ’s announcement does heel Rosen as the VP of Product Management right now , but a cached version of the discharge call him theVP of Integrity .
Facebook ’s press tone ending from earlier this calendar week explain that it was really difficult to monitor video on the political platform . But Facebook was the political platform of option for a 28 - year - old Australian terrorist who livestreamed his massacre at two mosques in New Zealand last Friday that killed 50 people and left gobs injured . People who were watching the livestream could n’t report it for removal because the situation ’s tools only allow for a “ suicide ” push button but no “ execution ” button to flag it for moderators .
New Zealand ’s Prime Minister , Jacinda Ardern , has been critical of societal media companies in the wake of the attack , saying that they ca n’t be “ all profit , no responsibility . ” It ’s now illegal to view and distribute the video of the slaughter in that state and an 18 - year - erstwhile New Zealand man has been arrested for both sharing the TV and “ inciting violence ” through hisonline chats or posting .
What the hell is a VP of Integrity ? Facebook has n’t reply to Gizmodo ’s request for input . But we ’ll decidedly let you have a go at it when we get wind back .
But it ’s tough to indicate that Facebook ’s piece of tail - ups have n’t been of its own foundation . Did you see that Facebook fuck up one C of millions of substance abuser passwords recently , storing them as plaintext ? Those kinds of stories scarce make the nightly news any longer .
[ Alex Hern , Facebook ]
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