We are not prepared to play this game any further: The Wire
Background of The Wire’s Meta article
On October 10, The Wire exposed Meta’s XCheck programme where it accused the social media giant of giving the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) IT cell president Amit Malviya exclusive rights of allowing to flout the company’s privacy rules by taking down any post which is bad press for the party.
In its defence, Meta ferociously denied any such claims and slammed The Wire for publishing two stories, which, according to Meta (formerly Facebook) Chief Information Security Officer Guy Rosen were “outlandish and riddled with falsities.”
“These stories are fabrications. The stories are simply incorrect about the cross-check programme, which was built to prevent potential over-enforcement mistakes. It has nothing to do with the ability to report posts, as alleged in the article,” Rosen posted on Twitter
We are not prepared to play this game any further: The Wire
Our statement on Meta’s responses so far:
— The Wire (@thewire_in) October 17, 2022
By repeatedly making wild claims about The Wire’s evidence, the company hopes we will feel obliged to seek and publish further information that could be more easily traced back to our sources. https://t.co/0iB89mbylJ pic.twitter.com/BvBn49m0Ch
We are not prepared to play this game any further.https://t.co/0iB89mbylJ pic.twitter.com/Akh1ZHa5sh
— The Wire (@thewire_in) October 17, 2022
This response, unfortunately, is not good enough. The latest response by Meta that instagram.workplace\.com is a free trial account created by someone on October 13 to manufacture evidence for a claim made by @thewire_in is a very specific response and not a ‘wild claim’.
— Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) October 17, 2022
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