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I think this whole PR circus for him has one important goal - he seems to be shooting to be a US president one day and this is him laying extensive ground work.

I think this whole PR circus for him has one important goal - he seems to be shooting to be a US president one day and this is him laying extensive ground work. We are going to see more of that in the future. He can't get much higher in the business world and it's pretty clear he's an egomaniac who wants more power. That's my theory anyway.

gooseus 10y ago
My cynical side is agreeing and also putting a different context around the charitable LLC he announced a year ago in his daughters name. I think it's a pretty scary scenario to have a person with such a high percentage of the world's personal information at his fingertips seeking the highest office in the land. This is also the guy who decides the algorithms that control what news those people see (or don't see) on his platform and is also the guy who also carried out a study to see how his platform can manipulate his users emotions.
- confounded 10y ago
  Published a study on how his platform can manipulate its users' emotions. There are hundreds/thousands of studies on millions of people being carried out each day. And we probably won't hear about any more of them (unless they're really really cute).
- dx034 10y ago
  It's likely that at the time he'll become president, Facebook won't be significant anymore. That's probably what he's preparing for. He knows that his company won't last very long (because historically very, very few companies did), he lays the groundwork to start as a politician once Facebook isn't anymore what it is today.