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This was my favorite: “If we wanted to ignore research, why would we create an industry-leading research program to understand these important issues in the first place”
These are words by great CEO, fight these baseless accusations in court like you would fight any slander. These witch hunts must stop.
First off there's no way Zuckerberg wrote this. Might've been involved but these are the words of a marketing team working with a legal team.
Secondly why do you see Zuckerberg as a great CEO?
Yeah, we know you don't know, because you're looking at it from on top of a mountain of 100 billion dollars, Mark. There isn't a single damned thing that can change your picture of it being the absolute greatest thing ever.
> We care deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health.
What you care about, and what you say you care about, are nothing compared to your actions.
> It's difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives.
We don't know your motives, other than the obvious ones. We know your actions.
> At the most basic level, I think most of us just don't recognize the false picture of the company that is being painted.
That's because you live in a big dumb bubble where chat apps are somehow world-changing innovations and creepy stalker behavior is completely fine to you. You are out of touch and people are screaming it at you. You think you are entitled to encroach on everyone's private lives, intermediate on every interaction and mine it for vulnerabilities to auction off to advertisers. Your entire model of the world is broken, Mark. No wonder nothing makes sense.
Stopped reading after this point. I'm sick of billionaires with megaphones blaring their virtues.
This was my favorite: “If we wanted to ignore research, why would we create an industry-leading research program to understand these important issues in the first place”
It's a charade, parading out the typical "threat to children" and "dangerous to society" rhetoric politicians always use when they want to grab power. The entire goal is to make a pretense to control speech online.
Stop using Facebook, and stop falling for authoritarian claptrap.
> ...industry-leading... This self-proclaimed adjective was thrown in the mix five separate times within this note in an effort to explain how great the work that FB delivers is (and likely, to imply that the negativity applied to FB in the public eye is unfair). Saying Facebook is "industry-leading" with respect to social media and technology is like saying Priscilla is your favorite wife, dude. Put your money where…
It's relevant that this is "industry leading" because no one else has done this work. The implication is that the same patterns at Facebook are likely true with other forms of media.