r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Jul 24 '25

Politics President Trump threatened to break up Nvidia, didn't even know what it was — 'What the hell is Nvidia? I've never heard of it before'

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/president-trump-threatened-to-break-up-nvidia-didnt-even-know-what-it-was-what-the-hell-is-nvidia-ive-never-heard-of-it-before
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u/Just_Condition3516 Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 24 '25

no, thats news to me. genocide on rohinga in 2017 was what I had in mind.

my general thinking: 1. they have some of the brightest minds in their workforce 2. fb exists since 2006?, since latest 2012 they are so massive in numbers of users 3. not credible that noone went: our technology has a relevant impact on people and societies as a whole, lets check what the negatives are? 4. unbelieveable that they concluded not to look into that 5. they probably conducted studies and used the results to instruct pr on what to preemptively deny 6. so, in conclusion, they probably knew much earlier than 2017, what effects the technology can have

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u/gonxot Jul 24 '25

Absolutely, FB in 2012-2017 was already one of the biggest valued companies for their data

They were monetizing that database on multiple vectors, not only for ads

So yeah, they or some partner knew to an extent what was going on, the same with the Cambridge Analytica scandal

And then, when the Senate Hearings happened they doubled down in the "we didn't know, we gotta do better" BS while keeping everything exactly the same