“Posting on Facebook, no matter what issue, can feel like walking across a minefield.”— Taylor Lorenz, thedailybeast.com
“Women had accounts banned from Facebook for responding to male trolls with sentences like ‘men are trash,’ in part because the company classifies white men as a protected group.”— Taylor Lorenz, thedailybeast.com
“Mr. Banisauskas says he expects $20 million to $30 million in revenue this year.”— Kevin Roose, nytimes.com
“The brilliance of socially distributed media companies today is that they’re not trying to fight an unwinnable war. The idea that we should take people to our owned and operated properties is frankly a losing strategy.”— Matthew Segal, digiday.com
“That would be impressive, except if you had known what you were looking for you would have seen it on my dorm room window.”— Aaron Sorkin, imdb.com
“Do you realize that you jeopardized the entire company? Do you realize that your actions have destroyed everything I've been working on?”— Aaron Sorkin, imdb.com
“Facebook estimates that as many as 60 million accounts, 2 to 3 percent of the company’s 2.07 billion regular visitors, are fakes.”— Scott Shane, Mike Isaac, nytimes.com
“Brands often use dark posts as a way of testing ads without having to show the whole world their homework, which is convenient when an ad misses the mark or, worse, offends people. Now, the test ads will be attached to their pages of origin for as long as they are running.”— Garrett Sloane, adage.com
“You've got a couple of same-sex guys kissing, do you like that? Well, that makes me want to throw up. To me, I would punch ‘vomit,’ not ‘like,’ but they don't give you that option on Facebook.”— Pat Robertson, kansascity.com
“Facebook is the boyfriend or girlfriend who is too popular to really be a partner with you. They are friends with everyone. Their calendar is too full. Even when you are together, you have to compete with others for their time and attention. It’s exhausting, and the cozy intimacy you crave seems to…”— Jeff Elder, medium.com
“Any publisher leader who has a long-term view on their business should be building a Plan B. That is, a business and product strategy for your digital business that assumes zero organic reach for any content via Facebook.”— Kunal Gupta, polar.me
“I just opened up a Facebook page for Chinese Nazis. It has three Reichs so far.”— TheMemeSaint177, reddit.com
“I wish women didn’t have to rip our pasts open and show you everything and let you ogle our pain for you to believe us.”— Lindy West, latimes.com
“Yesterday my brother uploaded a status on Facebook. He wrote in his facebook status "I love my girlfriend <3" I knew that he liked them young but this is getting out of hand.”— Tisbutawriter, reddit.com
“Growth becomes the overriding motivation — something treasured for its own sake, not for anything it brings to the world.”— Noam Cohen, nytimes.com
“Its official – Facebook has entered the branded content arena, now directly competing with premium publishers on agency RFPs. The formula for a successful branded content campaign: awesome content plus scaled and targeted distribution? Well, maybe not… There is one essential objective that should be…”— Gavin Merwood, polar.me
“Facebook is working on advanced recognition technology that would put names to faces even if they are obscured and identify people by their clothing and posture. Facebook has filed patents for technology allowing Facebook to tailor ads based on users’ facial expressions.”— Jared Bennett, thedailybeast.com
“What we actually want is a way to force some fraction of the final results to possess a trait, while not requiring this trait from all results. This is what the WeakAnd operator accomplishes.”— Facebook, db.disi.unitn.eu
“Announce your Instagram account to your followers on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or any other social network you’ve already built a following on.”— Sarah Dawley, blog.hootsuite.com