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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's 2018: We've Changed, We Promise (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the Zuckerberg-speaks dept.

It's nearly the new year, which means time for some reflection on what's happened and what's to come. For Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, that means looking back on one really tough year. From a report: In his year-end post on Friday, Zuckerberg is optimistic, if a little defensive. He ticked off changes the company's made -- or, as he put it, "We've fundamentally altered our DNA" -- to focus more on handling the bad stuff that happens on Facebook. That includes tackling Russian interference in our elections, stopping harmful and bullying posts, and promising to give people more control over their data. He also noted that Facebook now has 30,000 people working on safety and harassment issues, and it's investing billions of dollars in security each year. He also acknowledged these issues will take more than a year to fix. But he said the company's started multiyear plans to address them. That doesn't mean he thinks Facebook is fully on the ball. "In the past we didn't focus as much on these issues as we needed to, but we're now much more proactive," he wrote.

"I've learned a lot from focusing on these issues and we still have a lot of work ahead," Zuckerberg added. "I'm proud of the progress we've made in 2018 and grateful to everyone who has helped us get here -- the teams inside Facebook, our partners and the independent researchers and everyone who has given us so much feedback. I'm committed to continuing to make progress on these important issues as we enter the new year."

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  1. You're a prick, Mark. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Nobody will ever believe you ever again, and if they do, fuck the morons harder. They deserve it.

    1. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sure, Mark made some mistakes, but he is a good guy at heart and deserves another chance. I think we can trust him.

    2. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      You are right that nobody will believe him but its also true that most Facebook users are too stupid to care.

    3. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by infolation · · Score: 2

      Some people say that I'm a bad guy.
      They may be right, they may be right.
      But it's not as if I don't try.
      I just fuck up, try as I might

      But I can change, I can change!
      I can learn to keep my promises, I swear it!
      I'll open up my heart and I will share it.
      Any minute now I will be born again!

    4. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by ganjadude · · Score: 1

      nice SP:BLU ref. i havent watched that one in ages now

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    5. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by nanospook · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Would you have been any different when being grilled by political fatcats who were grandstanding? Knowing everything you said could be taken out of context just like "that"?

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    6. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 2

      I think we can trust him.

      I think we can trust him, as far as we can throw him.

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    7. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by alvinrod · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think we can trust him at least as far as we can shoot him out of a cannon. I'm not exactly sure how far that is, but I'm certainly willing to find out.

    8. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by QuietLagoon · · Score: 5, Insightful

      ...Mark made some mistakes, but he is a good guy at heart...

      He made fundamental mistakes of deception and dishonesty. A "good guy at heart" does not do that. Therefore, your premise is invalid.

    9. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      See, I entirely believe him. Facebook has changed. I'm sure they've doubled down on the evil. Meanwhile, clearly most Facebook users just don't care on the news they read. Or they're willfully ignorant of the news that's available.

      Really, though, I don't get why Mark even gives a fuck. He could almost certainly extract out a substantial portion of his supposed worth from Facebook and retire on his own personal island. Maybe it's all the power trip of it all. Maybe it's just to see how high a value he can extract out of Facebook. Maybe what has unfolded was the master plan all along.

      Honestly, though, I would have been bored and left Facebook years ago if I were Zuckerberg. It'd be a lot more interesting to open up a chain of Pizzerias or ungodly numbers of other pointless ventures. There's no real pizzazz with Facebook anymore.

    10. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by Lordpidey · · Score: 1

      I was with you until you said he was a good guy.
       
      We all know he's a robot, not a human.

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    11. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by syn3rg · · Score: 1

      I heard the same thing from George Lucas after Episode 1...

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    12. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by ZombieCatInABox · · Score: 1

      If people can still believe a known and well established liar, scammer and con-man who's built his entire carreer out of screwing people like them when he says he will fight for them, or when he promises that he will build a great wall and make Mexico pay for it while the governement is now paralized precisely because Mexico won't pay for it, then you can be sure they'll believe Mark Zuckerberg again.

      Because even though the Zuck is a lying, manipulative, sociopathic piece of shit, he's still ten times more trustworthy that the current POTUS.

    13. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Would you have been any different when being grilled...

      No, I would be just as nervous if I were as guilty as him.

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    14. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 1

      Dumb fuck.

      That's Mark's own words for people who would trust him.

      I have seen this quote many places, which all point back to the 2010 "Business Insider" article. BI says it came from "SAI sources" but doesn't say who or what "SAI" is, and Google turns up nothing.

    15. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      Shhh. Don't go giving Zuck ideas for what to do when he gets bored with FaceBook.

      I was going to write "bored with/ousted from" but the latter isn't possible, is it? DIRC or did FOMO cause investors to chuck money in for second-class shares with less voting power?

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    16. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by budsetr · · Score: 2, Insightful

      whooosh

    17. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

      You don't think he had consultants to help him through the process? Or the money to pay people to help him avoid making such foolish decisions?

      He was being grilled by political fat cats because he fucked up in such an enormous way. And,it's not like this is even the first time he's fucked things up majorly, he started by posting all sorts of information that would normally be confidential to the net.

    18. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      "Would you have been any different when being grilled by political fatcats who were grandstanding?" - This is you excuse for lying to Congress, that it's too hard to tell the truth to "fatcats"? WTF apologist idiots lol.

    19. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Dumb fuck.

      That's Mark's own words for people who would trust him.

      I have seen this quote many places, which all point back to the 2010 "Business Insider" article. BI says it came from "SAI sources" but doesn't say who or what "SAI" is, and Google turns up nothing.

      https://www.saiglobal.com/

    20. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by sacrilicious · · Score: 1

      Zuck Fuckerberg and zuck bookface. Never touched it, never will.

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    21. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by rtb61 · · Score: 1

      To put it in a funnier fashion, he made mistakes with regards to lesson we were taught as children. Don't be a sticky beak, don't be a tattle tail, don't tell fibs and longer ones like, sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me, let the other children speak, don't be greedy. From childhood no lessons learnt, we know what kind of children they were and you could not trust them with anything. Clearly the only thing Facebook or the idiot that runs it understands is punishment, until that is forthcoming the poor childish behaviour will continue, behaving just like the worst kid in kindergarten, ohh that corporation and it's staff must be so proud.

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    22. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by Hallux-F-Sinister · · Score: 1

      Nobody will ever believe you ever again, and if they do, fuck the morons harder. They deserve it.

      They deserve it? You'd be right talking about adults who have lived through this era AND are paying attention. Those who are too young, and provided Facebook continues to exist, (which one could argue it should not,) might not know, or might give credence to whatever promises they make and whatever changes they implement... do you think memory lasts decades? Do you think someone who's say... 5 now, has no idea what Facebook is, in 15 years will remember this? Actually, will people remember in even a FEW years?

      Obviously no one should trust them... we should always remember the wisdom of the phrase, "if you're not paying for a service, you're not the customer, you're the product," but will they TEACH that in pre-K and Kindergarten in American elementary schools, along with "Logo," or whatever they're teaching kids today? Will that phrase be put up in every school classroom in a conspicuous place? Perhaps it should be worked into, or said after the Pledge of Allegiance. Because it's not JUST Facebook. It's ALL these "FREE" services. They are RAKING, (some of them,) in the DOUGH. Where does it come from? People need to know.

      Anyway... just saying.

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    23. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by dryeo · · Score: 1

      Really, though, I don't get why Mark even gives a fuck. He could almost certainly extract out a substantial portion of his supposed worth from Facebook and retire on his own personal island.

      Islands with suitable lava flows and a good supply of piranhas are in short supply. At least there's lots of white persian cats.

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    24. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by QuietLagoon · · Score: 1
      Quotes from "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"

      https://www.goodreads.com/work...

    25. Re:You're a prick, Mark. by sacrilicious · · Score: 1
      Ok, but I'd rather they have 1/100th the info on me that they otherwise would. Ergo I don't use facebook, barely use any phone apps at all, have rooted my phone and use a firewall, and usually keep my phone off. When I surf the web, I use noscript and other blockers. I use a different disposable email address for the rare service that I sign up for.

      You're right that I can't prevent them from having SOME info, but I can make the picture very very blurry.

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  2. Nothing has changed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    He shoulf be removing the facbook icons on all websites and drop the facebook shared logon feature. Then i might believe him

    1. Re: Nothing has changed by foxx1337 · · Score: 1

      Google+ actually still is and it still has its users. Sunsetting, but it exists, so please, allow Google to mine the data they're mining from the slashdotters who don't use a blocker like uBlock for example.

  3. this just in by zlives · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fuck you mark

  4. Nothing of value by Lije+Baley · · Score: 1

    Too bad there's nothing worth Eddie Lampert's attention in FB.

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  5. BULLSHIT by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So you're 100% not allowing anyone to have any users personal data, ever, except with with their explicit, written permission? No? That's what I thought.
    Take back your privacy and KILL FACEBOOK.

    1. Re:Bullshit by smooth+wombat · · Score: 2

      Right. Because Mozilla has done such a great job not screwing up Firefox.

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      We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
    2. Re:Bullshit by Voyager529 · · Score: 1

      Right. Because Mozilla has done such a great job not screwing up Firefox.

      Firefox has made some missteps for sure (the plugin change, Pocket, and version number arms race all come to mind)...but they've kept things open source, they've improved their memory issues drastically, do the least amount of tracking, and with Edge, Safari, Chrome, and Opera all running on Webkit, they're basically the only browser between us and another browser monoculture.

      Firefox may not be your preferred browser, and perhaps Facebook donating all their tech to Mozilla may not be the best idea (I'd opt for the EFF personally), but I don't think the notion that Mozilla is more screwed up than Chrome at this point is the safest ground upon which to stand.

    3. Re:BULLSHIT by novakyu · · Score: 1

      Is your Facebook account still $FREE ???

      Then YOU are the one getting plundered, pillaged, and raped.

      Yeah, but we thought the EULA specified only one rape per month. We would never have agreed to a daily rape!

  6. It's okay baby. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Just come back. I'll be better. I won't punch you in the face anymore and I'll only fuck you up the ass without lube on national holidays.

    1. Re:It's okay baby. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Just come back. I'll be better. I won't punch you in the face anymore and I'll only fuck you up the ass without lube on national holidays.

      That would sound a lot more believable if it weren't the major source of your income.

  7. I don't believe it by DaMattster · · Score: 5, Informative

    With as many tone deaf and disingenuous statements that Mark Zuckerberg has made, he has zero credibility in my book. As far as I am concerned this is a lie and he and his company will not be winning me back as a customer. I am a year and a month free from the assholery that Facebook is.

    1. Re:I don't believe it by Known+Nutter · · Score: 5, Insightful

      You were never the customer.

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    2. Re:I don't believe it by CWCheese · · Score: 1

      Zuck never had a cintilla of credibility to me from the day I heard of Facebook about 2 decades ago. Thus I never joined the lemming herd that eagerly believed it was an innocent innocuous place to share good feelings. I got singed once about 15 years ago when agreeing to let FB link to my old Yahoo mail name to post to some bulletin board; the very next day my Yahoo contact list was used to spam everyone I had on that list. It took several days to regain control and apologize to all my contacts. I broke the link and retired that email account, swore never to let FB within sniffing distance of my accounts.

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    3. Re: I don't believe it by denny_deluxe · · Score: 1

      Okay, Mark.

  8. Bullshit by ZackSchil · · Score: 1

    Literally the only thing Mark Zuckerberg could do to convince me that Facebook has changed is shut down the entire enterprise, shred all the data they've collected, and donate every last scrap of technology they've developed to an open source foundation like Mozilla to build a new social network on the ashes.

  9. It will be years B4 I believe Zuck again by QuietLagoon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To me, it looks like Zuckerberg built up Facebook upon a foundation of lying to people. Why should anyone believe anything he says now?

    1. Re:It will be years B4 I believe Zuck again by tsa · · Score: 2

      Don't forget the stealing.

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    2. Re:It will be years B4 I believe Zuck again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      To me, it looks like Zuckerberg built up Facebook upon a foundation of lying to people. Why should anyone believe anything he says now?

      That's the kind of behavior that got Microsoft where it is. Interestingly, they're using the same "trust us, we've changed" line, too, and a lot of people are dumb enough to believe them.

  10. Thanks, Mr. Zuckerberg by OneHundredAndTen · · Score: 5, Funny

    A good laugh in the morning always helps.

  11. So this means the spying will stop? by WCMI92 · · Score: 1

    I doubt it.

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  12. conservative groups by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Yes you have changed, you used to have more conservative groups a year ago...

  13. sure by supernova87a · · Score: 3, Funny

    I believe Facebook has altered its DNA just about as much as I believe Mark Zuckerberg altered his DNA in the last year.

    1. Re:sure by sinij · · Score: 1

      I believe Facebook has altered its DNA just about as much as I believe Mark Zuckerberg altered his DNA in the last year.

      Well, maybe he went back in time before he was born and had sex with his mother again?

  14. Zuck the Cuck by BECoole · · Score: 2

    Zuck the Cuck is still a Progressive Technocrat. Nothing will change, it's all about the $$$.

  15. What a difference a year makes by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In 2017, people were seriously talking about Zuckerberg running for president. He’d been visiting “the common folk” in various states and talking like a candidate.

    With all that’s come out this year, that is almost certainly dead - he’d be an fool to try. Politicians aren’t good at much, but they’re experts at finding and using dirt against their opponents... and Zuck has left lots of dirt out there in plain sight, free for the picking.

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    1. Re:What a difference a year makes by turp182 · · Score: 1

      He was just letting people know that he is real, not an AI or something.

      I figure it didn't work, people consider him an automaton.

      I do.

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    2. Re:What a difference a year makes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      In 2017, people were seriously talking about Zuckerberg running for president. He’d been visiting “the common folk” in various states and talking like a candidate.

      With all that’s come out this year, that is almost certainly dead - he’d be an fool to try. Politicians aren’t good at much, but they’re experts at finding and using dirt against their opponents... and Zuck has left lots of dirt out there in plain sight, free for the picking.

      I suggest you recheck who won the last presidential election and then repeat what you just said with a straight face.

    3. Re:What a difference a year makes by McGruber · · Score: 1

      and Zuck has left lots of dirt out there in plain sight, free for the picking.

      so did Trump.

    4. Re:What a difference a year makes by DulcetTone · · Score: 1

      What other candidate could win several states by promising a chronological news timeline?

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  16. DNA doesn't change by sjbe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "We've fundamentally altered our DNA"

    Right.... and I've got some bridges I'd like to sell. Once someone is proven to be untrustworthy it's unlikely they ever change. Yes it happens but it's terribly rare and almost unheard of in companies unless their incentives change to align with honesty. Facebook made their fortune in large part through dishonesty and the people who permitted that are still in charge. There is zero evidence to suggest the company has changed in any meaningful way. Their incentives are more or less the same, there is basically no regulation of them, and the same people are in charge. Why should they ever change?

    1. Re:DNA doesn't change by shanen · · Score: 1

      Wow, that's a shock. An apparently insightful comment on Slashdot and with the mod to match. I didn't waste time searching for "Insightful", however, but just went for "evidence" with the next candidate keyword to be "proof".

      Anyway, I'm sure that your question is rhetorical, but I'll go ahead and answer it: If they (the people controlling the corporate cancer known as Facebook) realized there was a more profitable business model involved.

      Now I'll go all rhetorical on you. Appealing to the intelligence or wisdom of the public (especially the American public) seems unlikely to sell more widgets. For my next joke, I would argue for symmetry, in that Facebook could build trust by sharing more information back towards us (especially as regards the earned public reputations of identities), but that won't work either. My new theory is that there is a fundamental asymmetry with fakers and con artists who would make it quite asymmetrically expensive for Facebook to try to eliminate their sock puppets. Not really a free speech issue, but too easily disguised as such.

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  17. It's not bullshit...it's business... by mlw4428 · · Score: 1

    You gave them explicit permission when you signed up to use their service. I mean come on, morons, servers, employees, bandwidth, etc all cost money. What did you dumbasses think was going to happen? Are you gonna act surprised when you find out Gmail is a data mining operation for Google or that Youtube tracks what videos you watch, how long you watch them for, what you liked/save, and then proceed to build a profile about you to give that data to advertisers? Creativity isn't free. Work doesn't go unpaid. People love to hate on Apple, but they sell you a device and they price it to include the services. Google/Facebook/etc all subsidize their work and YOU become the product. Either tell them you're willing to pay the $10-$20/month it'd require to use their service normally or don't a bunch of shit on those sites. The above person's sense of entitlement (and that of those who think like him) is disgusting. You don't get something for nothing.

    1. Re:It's not bullshit...it's business... by Known+Nutter · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Your rant completely fails to take into account the fact that Facebook was (is?) generating shadow profiles of non-Facebook users across the internet. I (and many, many others) never signed up for Facebook and never asked for any of their "creativity" to be bestowed upon me for free.

      So you can get something for nothing. Well, in this particular arrangement, I suppose Facebook can at least.

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    2. Re:It's not bullshit...it's business... by ChatHuant · · Score: 1

      Your rant completely fails to take into account the fact that Facebook was (is?) generating shadow profiles of non-Facebook users across the internet.

      Even so, this doesn't make GP's points invalid. It just shows yet another way for Facebook to be sleazy.

      However, the GP is right: Facebook (and Google) users ignore the huge privacy invasion they subject themselves to, and, in the process, they are spoiling the internet for the rest. Facebook and Google users happily leak other people's personal information to the data vampires, by putting their contact info online, by tagging them in photos, and via hundreds of other mechanisms. Moreover, the large mass of oblivious users lets the companies argue that whatever way they find to destroy your privacy is "industry standard" or "community accepted usage", and shouldn't be legislated against.

    3. Re:It's not bullshit...it's business... by Hognoxious · · Score: 2

      You gave them explicit permission when you signed up to use their service. I mean come on, morons, servers, employees, bandwidth, etc all cost money. What did you dumbasses think was going to happen?

      Explicit permission is where you say or write "I give X permission to do Y ...".

      The word you want is implicit.

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    4. Re:It's not bullshit...it's business... by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 1

      I don't use Facebook or any other 'social media' nonsense and if you do knowing what you know then I don't think you're very smart.

    5. Re:It's not bullshit...it's business... by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 1

      Except that Facebook doesn't even get implicit permission from it's users, not really, because they do not disclose in detail who your data is sold or given to, they just do whatever they please.

  18. Give Away Advertising to People Harmed by BrendaEM · · Score: 2

    Where is the compensation for those who were harmed?

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  19. All corporations lie. by VeryFluffyBunny · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The infamous I. F. Stone quote, "All governments lie" should get an update.

    "All corporations lie." -- The next time we hear a press release or a public statement by a CEO, spokesperson, or PR firm, we should all repeat, "All corporations lie."

    That way we won't be tempted into believing that they mean what they say, no matter how well acted & presented it may be. Although they can mimic all the affectations of sincerity & empathy, they are incapable of human feelings. That's how they can make $billions by exploiting millions of people & creating miserable working conditions for the vast majority of their employees & contractors, & still claim that they're "philanthropists."

    Grrrrrrrr.

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  20. Re:Nice try Satin by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 1

    Nice try Satin

    Very smooth...

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  21. MANY misrepresentations from Facebook. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 2

    This comment of mine about Facebook was moderated to +5:
    We don't know everything Facebook is doing.

    There have been MANY misrepresentations from Facebook. Why would we begin believing now?

    1. Re:MANY misrepresentations from Facebook. by Iwastheone · · Score: 2

      FB users should trust Zuckerberg saying he won't be untrustable anymore as much as I trust a snake promising me, "I won't bite you again, I'm old and toothless now." Pick up that snake and it'll whip out a new set of fangs and bite you. As the snake slithers away while you lay dying FB users will bemoan, "But you said you wouldn't bite me!" The snake will just say, "I have no sympathy for you. You knew what I was when you picked me up."

    2. Re:MANY misrepresentations from Facebook. by plopez · · Score: 1

      But this time they really mean it:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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  22. Changed the way ads are used by AHuxley · · Score: 2

    So the ad brands can have even more confidence in the way users are tracked.

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  23. Mark Zuckerberg: President of the Universe by najajomo · · Score: 1

    Mark Zuckerberg: President of the Universe

  24. Re:Stll headed in the wrong direction. by najajomo · · Score: 1

    "FTS: That includes tackling Russian interference in our elections, stopping harmful and bullying posts, and promising to give people more control over their data."

    a. Russian inspired facebook adverts didn't hand Trump the election, it was all that free airtime the conventional media gave him that did. As someone onced asked - why me - because you're on television dummy.

    b. It isn't your data.

  25. How about we also address by melted · · Score: 1

    How about we also address Israeli influence on our elections? It is baffling that in order to be electable US presidential candidates must pledge loyalty to a foreign state.

  26. The scorpion and the frog by notthepainter · · Score: 1
    A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion says, "Because if I do, I will die too."

    The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"

    Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."

  27. Nobody believe Zuckerberg by jsepeta · · Score: 1

    I've been Zucked for the last time. I quit Facebook and I'm never coming back. Zuckerberg is a sociopathic liar and I refuse to volunteer for him to sell my information to advertisers.

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  28. Sorry, don't believe you by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 1

    You can't change. Being an asshole is your revenue model. You couldn't continue to operate as a business if you changed.

  29. "They trust us.... by BeCre8iv · · Score: 1

    Dumb fucks."

    The Zuck

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  30. Facebook delenda est by astrofurter · · Score: 1

    Arrest Zuckerberg. Shut down Facebook. Seize and sell their assets. Ban businesses from cyberstalking and data hoarding. For a better future!

  31. Impossible by CptJeanLuc · · Score: 1

    A coal mining company cannot possibly keep their business going without mining coal. And Facebook cannot possibly keep their scam going without getting paid for user data (while hitting their insane profitability targets) unless they start charging their users instead. Which is not going to happen.

    If anyone in this world deserves to be doxxed and have their entire life exposed, plus have others meddling in their private affairs, it is Mark Zuckerberg. Also, some rich person who cares should buy all the property around wherever MZ lives, and just put up huge billboards in the middle of his view, running ads for whatever Mark would find annoying. Like books on how to become a nice person.