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Facebook Emails Show Its Real Mission: Making Money and Crushing Competition
- mindgam3 8y ago"It should not come as a surprise that Facebook — a giant, for-profit company whose early employees reportedly ended staff meetings by chanting “domination!” — would act in its own interests. But the internal emails, a rare glimpse into Facebook’s inner workings, show that the image the company promoted for years — as an idealistic enterprise more dedicated to “bringing the world closer together” than increasing its own bottom line — was a carefully cultivated smoke screen."
- mindgam3 8y agoThis New Yorker piece covers the same topic in a more comprehensive and less sensationalistic format: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/facebooks-very-bad-month-just-got-worse https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/facebook...