*Meet the Ex-CIA Agents Deciding Facebook’s Content Policy *
Alan Macleod
July 12th, 2022
It is an uncomfortable job for anyone trying to draw the line between
“harmful content and protecting freedom of speech. It’s a balance”,
Aaron says. In this official Facebook video
<https://about.facebook.com/regulations/>, Aaron identifies himself as
the manager of “the team that writes the rules for Facebook”,
determining “what is acceptable and what is not.” Thus, he and his team
effectively decide what content the platform’s 2.9 billion active users
see and what they don’t see.
Aaron is being interviewed in a bright warehouse-turned-studio. He is
wearing a purple sweater and blue jeans. He comes across as a very
likable, smiley person. It is not an easy job, of course, but someone
has to make those calls. “Transparency is incredibly important in the
work that I do,” he says.
Aaron is CIA. Or at least he was until July 2019, when he left his job
as a senior analytic manager at the agency to become senior product
policy manager for misinformation at Meta, the company that owns
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. In his 15-year career, Aaron Berman
rose to become a highly influential part of the CIA. For years, he
prepared and edited the president of the United States’ daily brief,
“wr[iting] and overs[eeing] intelligence analysis to enable the
President and senior U.S. officials to make decisions on the most
critical national security issues,” especially on “the impact of
influence operations on social movements, security, and democracy,” his
LinkedIn profile
<https://www.mintpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/FireShot-Capture-017-29-Aaron-Berman-LinkedIn-www.linkedin.com_.png>
reads. None of this is mentioned in the Facebook video.
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continua qui:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/meet-ex-cia-agents-deciding-facebook-content-policy/281307/
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