Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series.
Yesterday I wrote about the internal Microsoft document that labeled Phase 1 of their Scout AI rollout "Make people addicted." The document was written by Omar Shahine — Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Scout — whose name is on the document, on Microsoft's own Scout announcement, and on his biography on Microsoft's website, which reads: "Omar Shahine is a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft where he leads Microsoft Scout."
Today, Satya Nadella told staff he is "not sure what this document is or who is writing and leaking this nonsense," per 404 Media.
He then linked to a Futurism aggregation of the original 404 Media article instead of the actual piece. The CEO of Microsoft. Linked to the aggregation.
Somewhere out there, Omar Shahine — who has been publicly documenting building Scout on LinkedIn for months, who pitched it, built it, named it, and announced it — is reading his boss call his work "nonsense" and suggest he might want to go work elsewhere. On a Thursday.
The author is in the document, Satya. His LinkedIn is public. Maybe try the other search engine.
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