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A basic principle of PR is that you should trickle out good news, and get all the bad news out in one dump. Because when bad news trickles out, and the public r

by tlb 8y ago

A basic principle of PR is that you should trickle out good news, and get all the bad news out in one dump. Because when bad news trickles out, and the public reads a fresh bit of bad news every day, it does more damage. One wonders at Facebook's very passive strategy here. They're not controlling the narrative at all, and we're reading a fresh bit of bad news almost every day.

rurp 8y ago
One possible explanation is that they are sitting on so much potential bad news it would be a disaster to release all at once.
quadrangle 8y ago
Occam's Razor might suggest this interpretation: Facebook is as bad or worse a company as its strongest critics suggest. There's not some dump of bad news, there's horrific practices everywhere you look, so every investigation uncovers more bad stuff since it's the norm for the company rather than the exception…
theNJR 8y ago
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clomond 8y ago
I don't think many of the employees at various levels understand the "bad news" part of this. Therefore, they can't plan appropriately. I don't think it is intentional but rather a function of most employees being in a weird corporate "filter bubble" with extra strong cool-aid being served on the daily.
- warp_factor 8y ago
  I know a couple Facebook employees. It is actually very disturbing to see at what length they go to cover and find excuses for each of those breaches. Not a lot of the them are taking a step back. Echo chamber...
Alex3917 8y ago
A couple years ago Zuck was hinting at creating a privatized global government to compete with the U.N. I feel like a lot of the good stuff hasn’t even started coming out yet.
rusk 8y ago
Another tactic is to do this in the run-up to Christmas while everybody is preoccupied.

by tlb 8y ago

rurp 8y ago

One possible explanation is that they are sitting on so much potential bad news it would be a disaster to release all at once.

quadrangle 8y ago

Occam's Razor might suggest this interpretation: Facebook is as bad or worse a company as its strongest critics suggest. There's not some dump of bad news, there's horrific practices everywhere you look, so every investigation uncovers more bad stuff since it's the norm for the company rather than the exception…

theNJR 8y ago

Whoa, my AI Motivator instagram just posted that https://www.instagram.com/p/BrjhQ5UAoTa/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BrjhQ5UAoTa/

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clomond 8y ago

I don't think many of the employees at various levels understand the "bad news" part of this. Therefore, they can't plan appropriately. I don't think it is intentional but rather a function of most employees being in a weird corporate "filter bubble" with extra strong cool-aid being served on the daily.

warp_factor 8y ago
I know a couple Facebook employees. It is actually very disturbing to see at what length they go to cover and find excuses for each of those breaches. Not a lot of the them are taking a step back. Echo chamber...

Alex3917 8y ago

A couple years ago Zuck was hinting at creating a privatized global government to compete with the U.N. I feel like a lot of the good stuff hasn’t even started coming out yet.

rusk 8y ago

Another tactic is to do this in the run-up to Christmas while everybody is preoccupied.