“Memo Confidential” Satire by Mort Laitner
Note to Readers:
The following memo was posted on my Facebook page.
I have no idea who leaked or posted it.
I can not assure my readers as to its authenticity.
But as a responsible citizen, I shall not remove the memo from my Facebook page.
The memorandum, stamped in a 84 point, sans serif font read:
“Top Secret”——- “For Your Eyes Only”
Facebook, Inc.
1 Hacker Way
Menlo Park, California 94560
To: Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman and CEO
From: Sheryl Sandberg, COO
Date: August 1, 2018
Subject: The Midterm Elections
As you will note from the attachments, the Democratic Party—through its surrogates—plans on using our platform to get out the 2018 midterm elections vote.
Our campaign to get Facebook users to pay to increase the size of their reading audience is not significantly raising our profits and surveys have shown that prioritizing posting is only angering our 1.9 billion users.
We have lost advertising revenue from our past sale to Russian provocateurs and are limited campaign to stop fake news and hate speech is costing us dearly.
Therefore, I am making the following recommendations:
1, We create an algorithm that identifies any and all politically motivated advertisements.
2, Based on the word count, we advise the person posting how much he or she will be charged if they want to share or post their message,
Attachments: ( Removed by Author)
Copy to: (Names removed by Author)
Lo and behold as I attempted to post my satire on Facebook with seconds the following note appeared:
“We removed this post because it looks like spam and doesn’t follow our Community Standards.”
I guess satire is verboten in Facebookland.
But Holocaust denial meets their community standards.
Go figure.
