Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs (arstechnica.com)

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In copyright lawsuits over AI training, Meta has spent weeks blaming staff for downloading torrents. The company has now been ordered to name executives who authorized decisions to pirate books from shadow libraries like Anna’s Archive and LibGen, TorrentFreak reported.

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[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Let's be clear here, if you work for Facebook, you will be judged socially. In addition to being thrown under the bus by the people that take credit for your work.

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