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.

      • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.comEnglish
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        5 days ago

        That is what mandatory conscription leads to. All Israelis except for the very few who refuse service are trained soldiers with direct ties to the army. All those reservists are now participating in the genocide.

        Short memory?

            • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOP
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              5 days ago

              All IDF reservists occupying Palestine are valid military targets.

              Can you explain what this has to do with Judaism?

              • thanks AV@lemmy.world
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                5 days ago

                Well, you see, the idf is representative of all jews, so when you say the idf are valid military targets what you mean is all jews, obviously

                • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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                  5 days ago

                  Such is the nature of left antisemitism: you must always read between the lines.

                  For example, a user by the name of Anarcho-Bolshevik once commented ‘Every Jew is like a precious lamb to me. (Except for Netanyahu and anybody who supports him… those people are awful.)’

                  You shall see, gentlemen, that this is, without question, the single most antisemitic comment ever written, for a few simple reasons:

                  • Calling Jews ‘precious’, which puts a price on them, so she or he is actually saying that all Jews are commodities. Strike one.
                  • Comparing Jews to animals frequently intended for consumption, thereby implying that she or he wants to eat all Jews, as anybody could logically deduce from that. Strike two.
                  • Saying that anybody who supports Netanyahu is awful, but supporting the war on Gaza supports Netanyahu, and 99.99% of Jews are Zionists, which means that they support the war on Gaza, so she or he is really saying that all Jews are awful. Strike three.

                  Now you will understand the reasons which have led countries to persecute and isolate those leftists marked by the stigma of their antisemitism. The domination of such leftists within society is disturbing and dangerous for the destiny of the nation.

                • Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.comEnglish
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                  5 days ago

                  All Israelis except for the very few who refuse service are trained soldiers with direct ties to the army. All those reservists are now participating in the genocide.

                  Now maybe they didn’t say ‘go out in the world and hunt down people of the Jewish faith across the globe for eradication’ but when you say ‘All Israelis’ and unless I’m mistaken the principal population of the state there is ethnic Jews, then it’s not a big step. When you have a mandatory conscription state, and you say kill all the people who served in the military of said state (they are all valid military targets) then you are advocating for the ethnic cleansing of a population.