Speaking from personal experience as a former FB employee (but 8 years ago at this point): It was pretty easy to put all the bad press out of mind, because so m

Speaking from personal experience as a former FB employee (but 8 years ago at this point): It was pretty easy to put all the bad press out of mind, because so much of it was obviously mistaken and uninformed. Media coverage of Facebook is overwhelmingly written by people who don't know how websites or tech companies work, and who don't know how to evaluate or even acknowledge the tradeoffs involved in the subjects they write about. To be fair, this is how media coverage of most things works. High quality criticism is rare, and you have to seek it out. Thoughtful people do seek it out. But as a matter of personal experience, the fact that most criticism is low quality makes it easy to ignore without losing any sleep. On the other hand, maybe the press is much more negative now, and the situation is different? Could be. I've been out for too long to know.