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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's 2018: We've Changed, We Promise (cnet.com)
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."
"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."
Nobody will ever believe you ever again, and if they do, fuck the morons harder. They deserve it.
Fuck you mark
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.
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.
To me, it looks like Zuckerberg built up Facebook upon a foundation of lying to people. Why should anyone believe anything he says now?
A good laugh in the morning always helps.
I believe Facebook has altered its DNA just about as much as I believe Mark Zuckerberg altered his DNA in the last year.
Zuck the Cuck is still a Progressive Technocrat. Nothing will change, it's all about the $$$.
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.
#DeleteChrome
"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?
Where is the compensation for those who were harmed?
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
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.
Debate is a form of harassment. Do not question my truth.
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.
Beware of the Leopard.
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?
Explicit permission is where you say or write "I give X permission to do Y ...".
The word you want is implicit.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
So the ad brands can have even more confidence in the way users are tracked.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"