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Wondering what he thought would be him doing "a better job weighing in"? It seems like his deleted tweets were apparently too honest? i.e. in arguing that there was no data breach, he argued that FB's API and TOS allowed (without oversight) for all app developers to do the kind of data harvesting Cambridge Analytics did? That was well-known by developers, but I guess it's different stating it as an official policy.


Translation, "I pissed off my boss"


If he's leaving anyway why would he really care?


Stock options.


In political circles, this is what is called a "Kinsley gaffe": when somebody accidentally tells the truth (and then has to hastily walk it back)


Essentially admitting that the amount of information harvested was not unauthorized but rather by design.


Its corporate speak for "The PR department and/or my boss gave me marching orders to delete them."


And probably the legal department too. He was inadvertently delivering ammunition to anyone who might want to come after the company for this, which seems like something that might very well happen.


Yup but Legal is probably smart enough to realize deleting it won't make it go away tho.




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