████: "Can I please see the Mercury project results? ████ led me to ████ who is... not being responsive."
████: "I actually DON'T have access to those results myself, as they were kept pretty confidential... all that is to say, happy to track this down for you, but you have to tell me the business reason for needing them because i'll need that to make the case"
████: "lol no way, this is like the most secretive thing i've ever heard of"
████: "my business reasons is that i'm a research manager in the wellbeing space so like, I generally find it helpful to know what wellbeing research results say for... not doing duplicative work, and generally doing my job of understanding the impact of our platforms so i can make it better"
████: "and honestly I can guarantee I have worse shit than whatever it says lol Feed Relevance consistently distributes SSI vpvs to teenagers and nobody has noticed, like how much am I gonna care that deprivation studies show wellbeing gains from not using our shitty products"
████: "I once saw Policy outright state that they wouldn't take down the account of a Cameroonian expatriate with a massive in-country following who was explicitly calling for the murder of Ambazonians who participated in the Cameroonian elections – which then absolutely happened, we saw the videos – because of the PR implications. I think folks are overestimating how bad the research evidence is vs the actual practice of working at this company."
████: "I hear you. Let me dig in and see if I can figure out a) why this is so sensitve (my sense it's less about the findings and more about leadership's reactions); and b) if I can get around this, where it is"