[anth_anm]

> source: I ran Facebook’s ads backend for years

Why would anyone ever trust a goddamn thing you have to say about their data?

Unless they pay your salary and are asking you to give your expertise on hoarding and abusing user data, obviously.

[dang]

We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our many requests to stop.

If we allow users to harass and attack people who have genuine expertise for posting here, does that make HN better or worse? Obviously worse. Mob behaviors like this are incompatible with curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[benreesman]

Me spilling tea about the business is far more in the spirit of a whistleblower than a shill.

I have nothing to gain and everything to lose by shedding light on one of the most powerful entities in existence.

But TLDR it’s not as interesting as people like to think.

[saagarjha]

You can gain internet points on a social website…

[benreesman]

Check my join date, I have less than 500 points. If I was just like “foo is evil” every time foo came up up I’d have like 10^3 more.