A group of Apple employees are calling for an investigation into the recent hiring of former Facebook ad manager Antonio Garcia Martinez, citing concerns about "misogynistic statements" that he made.
Apple has hired former Facebook ads product manager, Antonio Garcia Martinez, according to Business Insider. He’s also a best-selling author and tech entrepreneur, the CEO-founder of AdGrok, and a former quantitative analyst for Goldman Sachs.
After studying physics in the University of California, Berkeley, Martínez started working at Goldman Sachs in September 2005. After leaving the multinational investment bank and financial services company in March 2008, he started working at Adchemy which helps online brands scale ecommerce revenue acquisition as a research scientist in April 2008. After leaving Adchemy in May 2010, Martínez founded AdGrok, an advertising platform enabling business owners to automate the process of choosing and bidding on keywords on Google AdWords.
of staff had been pushing pizza gate on twitter. another man responded to our request for comment. anxious store owners met with d.c. police commanders as a fake news story has turned into something very real, tom costello, nbc news, washington. so disturbing. let s bring in antonio garcia martinez a former employee of facebook and author of chaos monkeys. thanks for being with us today. americans are not only fooled by fake news but analysis that indicates it outperforms real news. why is there such an appetite for it? well i mean the reality is that we like news or pieces of content that reaffirm our world view. there is that he thing called cognitive dissidents. we don t like hearing points of view that go against our own. this is the definition of click bait basically. you talk to some people about fake news they ll tell you it s so obviously fake, how could you believe it yet we look at the numbers and a vast majority do. sweet sounding fairytales are
down on the misinformation online, and they will improve the misinformation detection, and make flagging it easier and use the third-party fact-checking, and label potential stories as false. they also faked fake web news sites from buy ing ing advertis. this is after buzzfeed found that face news generated more likes and comments than traditional news outlets in the final three months of the presidential race, but social media experts say that the new strategy of facebook may not be enough. ultimately, we have to move past the band-aid solutions to a greater reinvisioning of what facebook is. reporter: zuckerberg says that not all of the fixes are going to be working, but he is committed to get it right. and now, joining is the author of chaos monkeys and
also author of the book chaos monkeys, obscene fortune and random failure in silicon valley. you guys saw this developing. what did it look from the inside? what were the concerns as you watched this new kind of genre of viral totally fabricated stories go wild through the facebook platform? well, you know, in 2012, the fake news thing wasn t as big a factor. but the reality that facebook could actually throw an election has been well known for years. we used to joke internally, and of course it was only a joke, but if facebook, for example, only showed those little reminders to vote that you see inside facebook, if it only showed it to a certain subset of counties and certain swing states, it could totally throw the election, right? this is a well known thing that facebook has been aware of for years. weird that zuckerberg is acting surprised in 2016 that it could possibly have influenced the election.