“Facebook’s claiming that it is not selling user data is like a bar giving away a free martini with every $12 bag of peanuts and then claiming that it’s not selling drinks. Rich user data is Facebook’s most prized possession, and the company sure isn’t throwing it in for free.”— Michal Kosinski, Casey Newton, theverge.com
“If employees feel there is something happening that's illegal, unethical or against their strongly held values, they feel the need to tell someone. Whether they leak it or tell someone who leaks it, people talk about it more. It's a shame how long it's taken to get it all out there; now it's like de…”— David Lassman, Annie Gaus, thestreet.com
“Christy: You're asking me to believe that the CFO of Facebook doesn't know how to change his relationship status on Facebook? Eduardo Saverin: It's a little embarrassing so you should take it as a sign of trust that I would tell you that.”— Aaron Sorkin, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew Garfield, imdb.com
“Divya Narendra: Everybody on campus was using it. 'Facebook me' was the common expression after two weeks. And Mark was the biggest thing on a campus that included 19 Nobel laureates, 15 Pulitzer prize winners, 2 future Olympians and a movie star. Sy: Who's the movie star? Divya Narendra: Does it ma…”— Aaron Sorkin, Divya Narendra, Max Minghella, imdb.com
“You know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this. If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you'd have invented Facebook.”— Aaron Sorkin, Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg, imdb.com
“While we were playing on our phones and apps, our democratic institutions seem to have been upended by frat-boy billionaires from California.”— Canadian Member of Parliament, Noam Cohen, wired.com
“We’re trying to enable people to share everything they want, and to do it on Facebook. Sometimes the best way to enable people to share something is to have a developer build a special purpose app or network for that type of content and to make that app social by having Facebook plug into it. Howeve…”— Mark Zuckerberg, parliament.uk
“While we were playing on our phones and apps our democratic institutions, our formal civil conversations, seem to have been upended by frat-boy billionaires from California.”— Richard Allan, businessinsider.com
“So far, the track record basically has been that regardless of what Facebook does, they keep getting more money. The question simply is, will this make people wake up?”— Rishad Tobaccowala, nytimes.com
“Remember: If your Facebook feed is filled with garbage, it means you were reading garbage in the first place. The algorithm simply gives you more of what you crave.”— Jim VandeHei, axios.com
“Acton’s account of what happened at WhatsApp—and Facebook’s plans for it—provides a rare founder’s-level window into a company that’s at once the global arbiter of privacy standards and the gatekeeper of facts, while also increasingly straying from its entrepreneurial roots.”— Parmy Olson, forbes.com
“We’re increasingly holding Facebook to account to justify the levels of investment we are putting in them. We continue to press them to allow us to independently verify our metrics and operate in the real world. Facebook doesn’t operate with real-world metrics. I would urge every agency to hold Face…”— Robin O'Neill, digiday.com
“Fourteen years after it was founded, in Zuckerberg’s dorm room, Facebook has as many adherents as Christianity.”— Evan Osnos, newyorker.com
“The primitive level of user feedback encouraged by online services is a feature, not a bug.”— David Auerbach, medium.com
“In January, the cost per thousand impressions for an Instagram Stories ad was $4.62, while the interaction rate was 1 percent. For the 30 days to Aug. 16, the CPM for Instagram Stories was $5.53, while the interaction rate was 0.47 percent. The story here is that when a new placement shows up, peopl…”— Simon Lejeune, digiday.com
“If the era of early distributed media for publishers was to spray-feed everything, everywhere, the moment we are in now is more about being smart about how we create better relationships with platforms that are meaningful from not only an audience-reach perspective but also in terms of how we want t…”— Cory Haik, digiday.com
“Hannah: Didn't you say that texting was the lowest form of communication on the pillar of chat? Marine: The totem of chat. No, the lowest, that would be Facebook, following by gchat, then texting, then email, then phone. Face to face is of course ideal, but it's not of this time.”— Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham, imdb.com
“It’s easy to joke about Facebook, but at the end of the day, livelihoods are at stake along with freedom and democracy.”— Facebook Zoo, themaven.net
“Every time Facebook traffic would go down, we’d think, ‘OK, maybe this is the low point,’ and then it would go down even further.”— Julia Turner, slate.com
“To have a period where people focus on some of the negative uses, to make sure that we fully understand that, I think is completely reasonable.”— Mark Zuckerberg, recode.net