#FediPact meta's public policy director for threads.net and other platforms is one of the authors of project 2025
Erik Uden 🚩@FediPact holy shit
The person now in charge of Threads' public policy (among other things at Facebook) also helped write Project 2025 and was a top advisor to Ron DeSantis.
„Defeat Project 2025” has an entire page dedicated to Dustin Carmack:
https://defeatproject2025.org/author-bios/dustin-carmack/
This person should not be in charge of public policy for anything. If I'd find out this man made the rules for a Mastodon instance, I wouldn't federate with that instance anymore.
Dustin Carmack - Defeat Project 2025!
According to Carmack's bio in the Mandate for Leadership, “he served in the Intelligence Community as Chief of Staff to the Director of National Intelligence.” Before that, he worked as “Chief of Staff to Congressman John Ratcliffe…and Congressman Ron DeSantis.” According to the New York Post and other sources, Carmack left a position at the Heritage Foundation to join the presidential campaign of DeSantis, serving as policy director and senior advisor (with an emphasis on national security). His views on national security, cybersecurity, and China have been described as “hawkish.” After DeSantis dropped out of the race, Carmack took a job with Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. Read More...
Aral Balkan@ErikUden I’m so confused, I thought Mastodon and Meta were friends. So this guy must be a good guy, right?
https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦@aral mastodon.de isn't controlled by rochko though?
@mawhrin I’m not sure anyone stated that it was.
tastyraspberry@tastyraspberry @ErikUden Yeah, it’s a dick move but, hey, welcome to the web circa 2024 🤷♂️
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Kadsepfösch@Glatorius @ErikUden As many times as it takes until something changes.
And, plus, it has fringe benefits too. Like finding me new people to block.
hagen@ErikUden not that i’m defending hiring this guy but he very much isn’t in charge of threads public policy. even the screenshot you shared disproves that.he is responsible for public policy (so advocacy) in the us south and not in charge of the whole platform. likely because he has very good politcal contacts in that region.
director is a basically a regional branch leader, not the head of the whole thing.
Ben Todd
Mars Watcher@ErikUden makes me want to shave my beard and focus on growing hair :(
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