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Facebook itself is has no vocal cords or thought membrane. It's often easy to forget because we like to personify companies, but a company is just a piece of pa

Facebook itself is has no vocal cords or thought membrane. It's often easy to forget because we like to personify companies, but a company is just a piece of paper for tax and legal purposes. You can safely think "Facebook wants me to think it thinks this" when a Spokesperson speaks. You can safely think "Part of Facebook thinks this" when an individual employee speaks. You can safely think "Facebook Corporate wants me to believe this" when an executive speaks. All of these individuals speak for Facebook, because they are a part of the collective that is Facebook.

bluefirebrand 3y ago
Humans are also a collective of cells organized in a way. Do you think that the hands necessarily always agree with what the mouth says? Treat Corporate as the brain, the PR department as the voice, and that's "what the corporation thinks" The rest of the collective doesn't matter basically at all for this.
benzible 3y ago
"Collective" may not be the most accurate way to describe Facebook (er, "Meta"), given that its structure places it on the opposite end of the spectrum: > “Mark Zuckerberg, our founder, chairman and CEO, is able to exercise voting rights with respect to a majority of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock and therefore has the ability to control the outcome of matters submitted to our stockholders for approval, including the election of directors and any merger, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of our assets." [1] And forget about rank-and-file; Zuckerberg overrides decisions of senior management... > During a company meeting this month, Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth said Zuckerberg made some hires over the “objections” of senior executives — and sometimes rebuffed their advice in order to fire people, according to two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private company matters. [2] [1] http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001326801/45290cc0-656d-4a88-a2f3-147c8de86506.pdf http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001326801/45290cc0... [2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-mark-zuckerberg-broke-meta-s-workforce/ar-AA1axVS7 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-mark-zuckerber...

bluefirebrand 3y ago

Humans are also a collective of cells organized in a way. Do you think that the hands necessarily always agree with what the mouth says? Treat Corporate as the brain, the PR department as the voice, and that's "what the corporation thinks" The rest of the collective doesn't matter basically at all for this.

benzible 3y ago

"Collective" may not be the most accurate way to describe Facebook (er, "Meta"), given that its structure places it on the opposite end of the spectrum: > “Mark Zuckerberg, our founder, chairman and CEO, is able to exercise voting rights with respect to a majority of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock and therefore has the ability to control the outcome of matters submitted to our stockholders for approval, including the election of directors and any merger, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of our assets." [1] And forget about rank-and-file; Zuckerberg overrides decisions of senior management... > During a company meeting this month, Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth said Zuckerberg made some hires over the “objections” of senior executives — and sometimes rebuffed their advice in order to fire people, according to two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private company matters. [2] [1] http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001326801/45290cc0-656d-4a88-a2f3-147c8de86506.pdf http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001326801/45290cc0... [2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-mark-zuckerberg-broke-meta-s-workforce/ar-AA1axVS7 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/how-mark-zuckerber...