a high-profile member of Facebook’s board of directors, the venture capitalist #Marc_Andreessen, sounded off about the decision to his nearly half-a-million Twitter followers with a stunning comment.
“#Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people for decades,” Andreessen wrote. “Why stop now?”
After that, the Internet went nuts.
Andreessen deleted his tweet, apologized, and underscored that he is “100 percent opposed to colonialism” and “100 percent in favor of independence and freedom.” Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, followed up with his own Facebook post to say Andreessen’s comment was “deeply upsetting” to him, and not representative of the way he thinks “at all.”
#disruption #colonialisme #venture_capitalists #oops
“users” is a term that Facebook now discourages, favoring “people” instead. Though “users” was, at least, an improvement over “dumb fucks,” which is what Zuckerberg called the people who signed up for Facebook when it was new
#WHO walks back some of its #mea_culpa
▻http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2015/04/who-walks-back-some-of-its-mea-culpa.html
Yesterday I posted the complete text of WHO’s description of its #errors in dealing with #Ebola in West Africa (...). It was striking for the frankness of its admissions.
(...) strange report by Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley: How WHO revised its self-criticism over Ebola handling. Here’s what Boseley wrote. Click through to the full report to see how thoroughly (and rapidly) watered down its original statement:
The World Health Organisation issued a fairly profound statement of the mistakes made in its own handling of the Ebola outbreak while pointing to the way forward this morning, which dropped into my email inbox at 09.21 UK time. Then just an hour later, it issued what it called a #correction, but which was in fact a substantial #revision of the document.
FAIL – Le nom d’un haut responsable de la CIA dévoilé par erreur par la Maison Blanche | Big Browser
►http://bigbrowser.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/05/26/fail-le-nom-dun-haut-responsable-de-la-cia-devoile-par-erreu
« Si Edward Snowden avait rendu public le nom du chef de la CIA en Afghanistan, nous lui aurions envoyé des drones, c’est ça ? » se demande, dimanche, un journaliste américain.
#oops