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 ShellEnglish
    -15•2 months 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.

    • @IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOP
      10•2 months ago

      I said soldiers occupying Palestine. Not “Jews across the world”.

      The religion of the occupying soldiers does not hold any relevance to their status as valid military targets.

      Israel is Jewish in the same way ISIS is Islamic. Only when nitpicking things which are convenient to them. Such as genocide.

      • Monkey With A ShellEnglish
        -4•2 months ago

        Who said religion? The principal population of the state is ethnic Jews. Or is your ethnicity switchable at will? Declaring that the population of a state should be killed is wrong regardless of the location, conscription laws or voluntary be damned.