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Meta's Head of AI policy is a hardcore Zionist who enlisted in the IDF despite not being Israeli, has argued why killing large numbers of civilians is justifiable, hates the Red Cross.
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
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. As a result, she lamented, “different rules apply.” She invoked the trolley problem to argue why killing large numbers of civilians is justifiable and appears from her time as IDF Red Cross liaison to have a particular grudge against the aid organization, saying it “acts like a country” in Israel. Miki Rothschild, a vice president of product management at Meta’s Sunnydale campus, spent three years during the second intifada as a commander of the IDF’s Moran Squad which controls long range missile strikes.
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