100+ Meta employees, including Head of AI Policy, confirmed as ex-IDF - The Grayzone
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Meta’s recruitment of vast numbers of former Israeli soldiers raises serious questions about the tech giant’s commitment to free speech – and provides a peek into a biased content moderation process that’s been heavily censoring pro-Palestinian accounts amid the Israeli siege of Gaza. This article was originally published by ¡Do Not Panic! More than one hundred former Israeli spies and IDF soldiers work for tech giant Meta, including its head of AI policy, who served in the IDF under an Israeli […]

Shira Anderson, an American international rights lawyer, is Meta’s AI policy chief who voluntarily enlisted for the IDF in 2009 under a program which enables non-Israeli Jews who aren’t eligible for military conscription to join the Israeli army.

With AI a critical emerging technology for tech giants and militaries, Anderson’s role at Meta is an important one. She develops the legal guidance, policies and public relations talking points concerning AI issues and regulation for all of Meta’s key areas, including its product, public policy and government affairs teams.

At Meta, Anderson, who is based in Meta’s Washington DC office, is in familiar company. More than one hundred former Israeli spies and IDF soldiers are employed by the company, my new investigation shows, many of whom worked for Israel’s spy agency Unit 8200.

  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    That is what mandatory conscription leads to. All Israelis except for the very few who refuse service are trained soldiers with direct ties to the army. All those reservists are now participating in the genocide.

        • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.comEnglish
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          4 days ago

          That is what mandatory conscription leads to. All Israelis except for the very few who refuse service are trained soldiers with direct ties to the army. All those reservists are now participating in the genocide.

          Short memory?

              • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOP
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                4 days ago

                All IDF reservists occupying Palestine are valid military targets.

                Can you explain what this has to do with Judaism?

                • thanks AV@lemmy.world
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                  4 days ago

                  Well, you see, the idf is representative of all jews, so when you say the idf are valid military targets what you mean is all jews, obviously

                  • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.comEnglish
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                    4 days ago

                    All Israelis except for the very few who refuse service are trained soldiers with direct ties to the army. All those reservists are now participating in the genocide.

                    Now maybe they didn’t say ‘go out in the world and hunt down people of the Jewish faith across the globe for eradication’ but when you say ‘All Israelis’ and unless I’m mistaken the principal population of the state there is ethnic Jews, then it’s not a big step. When you have a mandatory conscription state, and you say kill all the people who served in the military of said state (they are all valid military targets) then you are advocating for the ethnic cleansing of a population.