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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    3 days ago

    The PLO was a failed organization which achieved nothing except recognizing Israel. Showing that abiding by the rules of the occupiers will never end occupation

    All combat aged occupiers occupying Palestine are valid military targets.

    I would equally not shed a single tear if Ukrainians killed Russian occupiers on Crimea. Once again their only right is to stop being an occupier asap.

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 days ago

      Hamas is still the legal successor of the PLO in Gaza though?? Everything the PLO signed/declared is valid in Gaza until Hamas revokes it. That’s literally how succession of states/governments works. There hasn’t been a revolution in Gaza, it has been a (relatively) peaceful transfer of power.

      This occurs regardless of what you think of one authority. Governments do not void anything and everything the previous government has done.

      It’s utterly insane you consider civilians to deserve death. I will never understand how anyone with a working moral compass can justify killing civilians. People like you are the fuel genocide engines run on.

      • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOP
        12·
        3 days ago

        The PLO is ran by the Mahmoud Abbas. The arch nemesis of Hamas and allies to Israel.

        I think it is insane that you consider colonial occupiers as civilans. If someone breaks into your house, kicks you out and then occupies it do you believe that they suddenly gain the right to self defense? These people are without any doubt on stolen land. They are trained as soldiers and when Palestinians excersize their right to regain their stolen land these people will fight them for it.

        People like you are the fuel genocide engines run on.

        No people like you are who believe that resistance against genocide is genocide and fail to follow a chronological order and then call every party the same. Like calling the Jews and the Nazis the same.

        After WW2 a lot of Nazi settlers in Poland who stole houses from their victims were kicked out. And that was awesome.

        Officially according the the Geneva Convention even soldiers are not valid military targets unless they carry a weapons. Nobody follows the Geneva Convention because if they Palestinians would not be locked in a concentration camp right now. But hey the Palestinians have to follow it!

        All Israeli colonists of military age are soldiers who will kill Palestinians trying to regain their land. Hamas very specifically avoids killing children.