“I can’t help but be skeptical about Facebook’s ability to change its product significantly enough to improve the mental health and wellness of its users. I think it is kind of like a tobacco company saying we’re going to make our cigarettes healthier. There is an addictive nature to the platform whi…”— Kunal Gupta, polar.me
“I can’t help but be skeptical about Facebook’s ability to change its product significantly enough to improve the mental health and wellness of its users. I think it is kind of like a tobacco company saying “we’re going to make our cigarettes healthier”. There is an addictive nature to the platform w…”— Kunal Gupta, polar.me
“First-party data will be in the limelight inside just about every publishing organization. Media companies will be actively looking for technologies and strategies that allow them to collect, manage, and leverage first-party data in an identity-centric manner.”— Neil Lustig, mediapost.com
“86 percent of publishers make 25 percent or less of their video revenue on Facebook — which points to how unsuccessful Facebook has been in building an ad revenue-sharing product that works for media companies.”— Sahil Patel, digiday.com
“Granted this gives Facebook a pretty clever excuse when this inevitably backfires—us. If we pick which news sites we think are worthy, then it’s on us when NewsInfo.biz claims an asteroid is headed for Staten Island or the deep state is plotting to put microchips into the water supply.”— Bryan Menegus, gizmodo.com
“The more we all have a voice to share our perspectives, the more empathy we have for each other and the more we respect each other's rights. Similarly, the more we benefit from global commerce and the services others provide us, the greater our incentive is to keep each other safe as it improves our…”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com
“I don’t see a huge need for the company to be throwing off a huge amount of profit. What’s the point? If we believe that we can build a lot more value for users, developers, and advertisers by taking any excess money we can make and investing it back in, then we’re just going to grow those communiti…”— Mark Zuckerberg, adweek.com
“I think Facebook is actually useful and not necessarily just a fad.”— Mark Zuckerberg, huffingtonpost.com
“We've been getting a lot of feedback about Mini-Feed and News Feed. We think they are great products, but we know that many of you are not immediate fans, and have found them overwhelming and cluttered. Other people are concerned that non-friends can see too much about them.”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com
“Facebook is about real connections to actual friends, so the stories coming in are of interest to the people receiving them, since they are significant to the person creating them.”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com
“I spend a lot of time thinking about how to make Facebook a place for all ideas. Some of what we're up against is human nature — biases that existed long before the internet. But by giving people access to more information and helping promote diversity and a plurality of opinions, we can build stron…”— Mark Zuckerberg, facebook.com
“The loser here is Facebook. I can’t imagine that taking off all this quality news content and replacing it with personal connections experiences will result in deeper engagement.”— Justin Smith, digiday.com
“Let’s pretend that one of the findings that comes out of this research is that the best thing for people would be to batch their Facebook use and only look at it once a week. What would be the business consequence if the research came to that conclusion?”— Robert Kraut, wsj.com
“We have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. Your behaviors, you don’t realize it, but you are being programmed. It was unintentional, but now you gotta decide how much you’re willing to give up, how much of your intellectual independence.”— Chamath Palihapitiya, washingtonpost.com
“We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection, because we get rewarded in these short-term signals — hearts, likes, thumbs up — and we conflate that with value and we conflate it with truth. And instead, what it is is fake, brittle popularity that’s short-term and leaves you even mor…”— Chamath Palihapitiya, washingtonpost.com
“The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created including the hearts, likes, and thumbs up of various social media channels are destroying how society works. There’s no civil discourse, no cooperation; only misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem–this is not about Rus…”— Chamath Palihapitiya, fastcompany.com
“In the past, ironic misandry has been a popular way for women to deal with living in a world where they’re exposed to frequent abuse at the hands of powerful men. Yet, if a woman takes to Facebook to vent about how she “wants to imprison men and milk them for their male tears,” she could quickly los…”— Taylor Lorenz, thedailybeast.com
““Comedian and writer Rae Sanni has been targeted by nazi trolls who hurled dozens of threatening and violent messages and comments at her for days,” a recent post reads. “Rae Sanni was banned by Facebook while her abusers are free to say sh*t like this without being in violation of community standar…”— Taylor Lorenz, thedailybeast.com