Facebook is the absolute worst.

If I had to list everything they’ve done, last year alone, we’d be here all day. Let’s just say they genuinely don’t care.

In the latest Facebook scandal, the company was so desperate to get info on their competitors that they paid teens to install spyware on their iPhones.

The “Facebook Research” VPN let the company absorb all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June, and that was removed in August.

Obviously, Apple wasn’t happy.

In response to the scandal, Facebook employees went onto the app Blind to rant.

Blind is an app designed to allow employees of various companies to chat semi-anonymously about their jobs. Your company is listed, but your name remains hidden.

Here’s Mashable:

An employee of, say, Facebook, uses their corporate email address to confirm that they do in fact work there, and then is allowed to post on app message boards — but the app doesn’t force them to confirm their title or other job details. Each post from a Facebook employee is marked as such. Likewise, any post from an Apple employee is clearly labeled as coming from an Apple employee.

When a Qualcomm employee asked “Wondering how much this is really affecting the folks working at FB” and posted a link to an article about the spyware, Facebook employees had the following to say:

The constant negative media attention is annoying, but I make 5x what I did at Oracle 8 years ago,” read one response from a Facebook employee. “And frankly, I’d be more embarrassed to tell people that I worked at Oracle than FB.” “Morale is super high,” reads the post from a self-described engineer. “We are paid a ton. Looking forward to my yearly bonus of $100k. Fuck ethics. Money is everything.”

Lovely.

We always knew they were a bunch of soulless capitalists, but it’s nice to have confirmation.

[source:mashable]