Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta layoff message was pretty good
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta layoff message was pretty good

I skewered the email Elon Musk sent as he laid off half of Twitter. Now Mark Zuckerberg has dumped 11,000 Meta employees, 13% of the workforce. Zuck did it right, including clarity about options for laid off employees and taking responsibility for making an error. To be clear, Meta’s management made a serious error in…

Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Oz just showed that if your advisors are yes men, you’re bound to look stupid
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Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Oz just showed that if your advisors are yes men, you’re bound to look stupid

It’s painful to have people tell you you’re wrong. If you’re powerful, you can make sure everyone around you would never do that. That’s a good way to end up looking like a complete fool. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz both just showed us what a foolish decision looks like,…

Meta’s new values look more awful than awesome

Meta’s new values look more awful than awesome

Less than six months ago, it seemed that Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, had learned a very public lesson. Between its involvement in spreading disinformation in the January 6 insurrection, a humiliating leak of documents showing how little it cared about the corrosive impact of its policies, and public calls to break the company up,…

Why Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t realize Facebook is evil

Why Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t realize Facebook is evil

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified in Congress yesterday. And Mark Zuckerberg was mystified. He was surely thinking, “Can’t they see that we’re out to help humanity?” Today I deconstruct his sincere statement to employees after all the negative news about Facebook in the past month. If you read this critically and with the right perspective,…

Why Zuckerberg reversed course: it wasn’t just the boycotts
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Why Zuckerberg reversed course: it wasn’t just the boycotts

Boycotts rarely work. But in the face of advertiser boycotts, Facebook just did a U-turn on its policy on labelling or blocking presidential posts. The cause and effect here is a lot more complex than it appears. As recently as the beginning of June, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the right decision on presidential posts,…

Facebook, false advertising, and the cost of doing business
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Facebook, false advertising, and the cost of doing business

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook won’t block political ads with lies in them. Facebook has changed its policy on — lets call it what is — false advertising. Zuckerberg characterizes this as a “free speech” issue. This is misdirection, a smokescreen. It’s utter bullshit. I refer you to what I wrote earlier this year, after another trust…

Captions from yesterday’s Oval Office meeting between Trump and Mark Zuckerberg. . .

Captions from yesterday’s Oval Office meeting between Trump and Mark Zuckerberg. . .

“Power is sexy, don’t you think?” “See, my hands are big. Very big. Yuge!” “On the Twitter, it’s totally free speech. Totally. Anyone can say anything, pretty much. You should look into that, they’re very successful.” “Do you know how to get sharpie off a computer screen?” “2020 is going to be a very good…