“Stan: Look out, world, God and Stan are back together again! Roger: It's not official 'til you change your Facebook status!”— Greg Cohen, Roger The Alien, Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com
“While social platforms may be too big to fail, they are increasingly trending to become the Closed Web in the coming years.”— Kunal Gupta, polar.me
“It seems to me that it would be in Facebook’s interest to share revenue and have more control over their platform. Part of my critique for Facebook is why they wouldn’t want to ensure of quality content on their platform by sharing revenue and it makes it harder for them to get rid of fake news and…”— Jonah Peretti, digiday.com
“The success of Google and Facebook rests largely on the fact that both have spent so much money building data centers and filling them with hardware and software designed by an elite, in-demand set of engineers. In this way they resemble the telegraph giants, with investments in physical infrastruct…”— Christopher Mims, wsj.com
“If the purpose of this tour was to stop Europe from being worried about Facebook, the exact opposite has occurred: Facebook should be worried about Europe.”— Joumanna Bercetche, cnbc.com
“The Facebook content is overwhelmingly product reviews. That’s the only thing that works on Facebook. It’s Facebook’s problem that they made a very square box that only one type of content fits in...Whatever traffic [Facebook] sends you, it’s just not real. I would do the weird product review videos…”— Jon Steinberg, digiday.com
“As he triumphantly rolls out Facebook 2.0, the real question is just how sincere Zuckerberg is in his promises to make things better.”— Maya Kosoff, vanityfair.com
“This is going to be for building real, long-term relationships — not just hook-ups.”— Mark Zuckerberg, cnbc.com
“It's also possible to see the data Facebook has collected on them over the years. This includes old messages, poke history and which advertisers have access to your data.”— Kaya Yurieff, money.cnn.com
“My top priority has always been our social mission of connecting people, building community and bringing the world closer together. Advertisers and developers will never take priority over that as long as I’m running Facebook.”— Mark Zuckerberg, docs.house.gov
“Facebook’s mission is about giving people a voice and bringing people closer together. Those are deeply democratic values and we’re proud of them. I don’t want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy. That’s not what we stand for.”— Mark Zuckerberg, docs.house.gov
“If only Mark Zuckerberg cared about the privacy of the rest of the world as much as he did his own.”— Joe Veix, theoutline.com
“There are three big categories of fake news. There’s a group of people who are like spammers. The second category is state actors. That’s basically the Russian interference effort. Then there’s the third category, which is the most nuanced, which are basically real media outlets [...]”— Ezra Klein, vox.com
“This is one of the craziest things about the modern age. We would never let the government or a corporation put cameras/microphones in our homes or location trackers on us. But we just went ahead and did it ourselves because — to hell with it!”— Dylan Curran, theguardian.com
“What makes Facebook think the world is becoming more public and less private?”— Marshall Kirkpatrick, archive.nytimes.com
“I feel a lot better about the systems now. At the same time, I think Russia and other governments are going to get more sophisticated in what they do, too. So we need to make sure that we up our game.”— Mark Zuckerberg, nytimes.com