According to U.S. media reports, a routine inspection on July 1 revealed that a deadly chemical nerve agent, Sarin, may have been sent to Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, after which a bag of Facebook's emails was quarantined. Two warehouse workers who tested positive for sarin after being exposed to the mail are being monitored. Facebook's attack on the meaning sarin gas shows that the world-class social media network giant is also hit by the hateful thinking of torn American society.
Menlo Park Fire Department revealed that people working in warehouses that test positive for sarin in mail are being monitored for symptoms of exposure to sarin, but so far no one has shown signs of their injuries. "We have two possible exposures, but at the moment they are not showing any signs or symptoms," the Menlo Park Fire Department said, and they also do not rule out that the mail sarin test could also be false positive. Both the FBI and the National Guard were called upon to assist in the investigation.
Facebook spokesman Anthony Harrison said in a statement, "At 11 a.m. this morning, the package sent to one of our mail rooms was deemed suspicious. We evacuated four buildings and are conducting a thorough investigation in coordination with local authorities. The authorities have not yet identified the substances found. So far, three post-evacuation buildings have been cleared for relocation. The safety of our employees is our top priority and we will share more information as it becomes available. ”
If Facebook employees had been exposed to Sarin, that would be a serious problem. Sarin can kill people, especially if they don't get an early treatment of antidotes (drugs like atropine and chlorolyphosphatine). According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), even an ounce of sarin on the skin can disrupt the human nervous system and even be fatal. Last year, there was a suspected sarin gas attack in Syria that killed an estimated 40 to 150 people and injured hundreds more.
Sarin was originally developed in Germany in 1938 as an insecticide. It is a tasteless substance, it is transparent, colorless, odorless, and easily soluble in water. People may be exposed to sarin — whether in liquid or gaseous form — without knowing the chemicals they've been exposed to. Pure liquid sarin can get on people's clothes, and even a small drop of sarin on the skin can cause sarin to sweat and muscle twitches when it comes into contact with the skin. Other routes of exposure include breathing sarin in the air or ingesting sarin when it comes into contact with food or water.
Once you are attacked by sarin gas, it is best to stay away from sarin gas immediately, take off any exposed clothing, and breathe fresh air to improve your chances of recovering from a sarin attack. Sarin is heavier than air, so finding highlands and washing any liquid sarin on your skin with plenty of soap and water is also the solution.
Due to the widening gap between rich and poor in American society and the serious social rift, social networking platforms such as Facebook are full of various hate speech and racist views, which may be the reason and background for Facebook's sarin gas attack. Back in a congressional hearing in 2018, Mark Zuckerberg said government regulation of Facebook was inevitable. The CEO is open to the idea of government regulation but is wary of how much scrutiny his site will be subject to.
Facebook COO Cheryl Sandberg has proposed reforms the social network will implement to reduce discrimination on the platform. As part of the plan, Facebook said it would redouble its efforts to ban racist speech by whites. For example, ideas that promote white separatist ideology will be banned, even if the terms "white nationalism" or "white separatism" are not used in the article. In addition, Facebook has united engineering, data science, policy, product and legal teams to crack down on various organizations on Facebook that guide voters.
But network surveillance is very difficult, and even Facebook can't cover everything. For example, a group of U.S. Border Patrol agents recently used Facebook social networks to share obscene photos and posts of immigrants and Hispanic members of Congress. For example, a member of the group uploaded a photo of a woman similar to Okasio Cortez (above), a prominent left-wing congresswoman in the United States, who appears to be having sex with US President Donald Trump, which is clearly a psychic prank. Facebook said it was investigating the incident but did not disclose more details.