> Is there a Facebook smear campaign going on or people just love to pile on Zuckerberg? How about "neither"? Facebook has been abysmally led on the subject o

> Is there a Facebook smear campaign going on or people just love to pile on Zuckerberg? How about "neither"? Facebook has been abysmally led on the subject of misuse, in fact going so far as to tell themselves explicitly it was OK if they got people killed[1] as long as they grew the user base and its monetization. They are just now coming out from under the default presumption that tech == good, and a fairly prodigious PR campaign aimed at suppressing criticism, indeed even smearing critics and misleading the US Congress. There is very good evidence that FB employees knew, and that executives either should have known, or were grossly negligent in not knowing, the extent of the various types of abuses, up to and including genocide, that were being conducted using FB as a primary platform for the campaign. No matter how you try to frame this as the tech biz equivalent "just boys being boys" and "business like everyone else" there is a lot, a whole lot, about FB and Zuckerberg's leadership that deserves exposure, criticism, and ultimately a change of leadership. [1] https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/this-facebook-executives-single-tweet-response-to-leaked-memo-reveals-companys-greatest-problem.html https://www.inc.com/justin-bariso/this-facebook-executives-s... Edited to add: Take note that Zuckerberg's response to these events is to concentrate power, use a "war" metaphor for his approach, and generally follow the authoritarian play book. Anyone thinking that FB is any kind of "western liberal values" kind of actor is fooling themselves. It will always be more in line with the kinds of things conservatives find attractive, especially today.