This blockbuster @nytimes investigation is why 1) I am deleting Facebook profile. 2) Why all of my friends who think I am oddly paranoid need to eat some damn crow. This is why I never downloaded Facebook app — remember they said they could access your microphone, read texts?
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) December 19, 2018
Eat some damn crow, and then shut the fuck up. There was much gaslighting about this, against Nicole, me, and other people who said, “You know, Facebook is run by a sociopathic asshole and anything to do with it is surveilling you, right?”
And then we were told we were paranoid, that there was just no way that such widespread privacy violations would or could occur, that it was inconceivable (no, I do not think that word means what you think it means) that a company could get away with such things.
Well, motherfuckers, you were wrong and we were right. Now for real shut up and listen to some people who know what the hell they are talking about and how the world really works.