9 Best Articles in 2022
WIRED
Inside Facebook's Hellish Two Years—and Mark Zuckerberg's Struggle to Fix it All
WIRED
20+ min read · From 2018 · How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
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The Washington Post
Mark Zuckerberg: The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas.
The Washington Post
7 min read · From 2019 · In an op-ed published by The Washington Post, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls for internet regulation in four areas. Perhaps he is pressing ahead to shape inevitable regulation in his company’s favor, or maybe he wants to ensure that others face the same scrutiny as his prominent platform does. Some commentators have accused Zuckerberg of trying to outsource the costs and responsibility for protecting the public from potential misuses of his platform. Regardless of his motives, Zuckerberg’s proposal for a new regulatory framework constitutes a sensible starting point for discussing the future of internet governance.
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TechCrunch
Zuckerberg misunderstands the huge threat of TikTok
TechCrunch
8 min read · From 2019 · “It’s almost like the Explore Tab that we have on Instagram” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in leaked audio of him describing TikTok during an all-hands meeting. But it’s not. TikTok represents a…
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WIRED
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Lost Notebook
WIRED
4 min read · From 2020 · In the early days of Facebook, Zuck kept his plans for world domination in handwritten journals. He destroyed them. But a few revealing pages survived.
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VANITY FAIR
How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War to Crush Google Plus
VANITY FAIR
~17 min read · From 2016 · In Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg built not just a business, but a company culture with the fervor of a messianic sect.
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VICE
This Deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg Tests Facebook’s Fake Video Policies
VICE
3 min read · From 2019 · A fake video of Mark Zuckerberg giving a sinister speech about the power of Facebook has been posted to Instagram. The company previously said it would not remove this type of video.
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The New Yorker
Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?
The New Yorker
From 2018 · The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech.
Reader View · Shared by 324, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Jane, Katja Evertz, Nick Lüthi, Lucas Foster, Mark Little, John Battelle, Armindo Ferreira, Marcus Schwarze 🚀, Chris Messina, Mark Kaigwa, Michael Seemann, PhilanTopic, OM, Toby Coppel, Klaus Eck, Mathew Ingram, Molly Wood, Johannes Lenz, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 (he/him)
BuzzFeed News
Before Mark Zuckerberg Tried To Kill TikTok, He Wanted To Own It
BuzzFeed News
9 min read · From 2019 · Four years ago, Mark Zuckerberg failed to buy the Chinese company that became the basis of TikTok. Now he's demonizing it to make the case against regulating Facebook.
Reader View · Shared by 74, including Matt Navarra, Ryan Hoover, Rick Powell, Matthias Lampe, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Mathew Ingram, Jan Firsching 🦦™️, Johannes Lenz, Merkstatt, Katja Evertz
WIRED
15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
WIRED
20+ min read · From 2019 · Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Here's how that turned out.
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Fast Company
Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for the metaverse is off to an abysmal start
Fast Company
4 min read · Apr 6th · Design is everything in the metaverse—but Mark Zuckerberg set it up to fail.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 62, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Glen Gilmore | 🌻🥽Metaverse 🕳🐇, Thomas Power
Business Insider
Meta will charge creators fees of up to 47.5% to sell virtual wares in its metaverse
Business Insider
2 min read · Apr 12th · Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg have previously criticised Apple for charging developers a 30% fee for in-app purchases via the App Store.
Reader View · Shared by 74, including Ari Paul ⛓️, Ralph Hutter, Ian M Calvert, Neira Jones, Jonathan Kogan, Manuel Reinhard, Jeremiah Owyang jowyang.eth, Tara Imani, AIA NCIDQ ASID
The Verge
Mark Zuckerberg’s augmented reality
The Verge
8 min read · Apr 13th · With the company’s first AR glasses coming in 2024, sources say "he wants it to be an iPhone moment."
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Road to VR
Meta CEO Warns Shareholders: Metaverse Investments May Not Flourish Until 2030s
Road to VR
3 min read · Apr 28th · Today during Meta’s Q1 2022 earnings call CEO Mark Zuckerberg told shareholders that they should buckle up for the long haul because the company’s steep investments in XR and metaverse technologies…
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The New York Times
Aaron Sorkin: An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg
The New York Times
4 min read · From 2019 · Facebook isn’t defending free speech, it’s assaulting truth.
Reader View · Shared by 165, including Jeff Atwood, Kyle Lacy, Delip Rao, Paul Roetzer, Scott Galloway, Joe Chernov, Augie Ray, Mathew Ingram, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Randy Deutsch, timoreilly, Tiffany Shlain, Jason Stanley, Prof Michael E. Mann, Scott McLeod, Nigel Warburton 🧡 #RejoinEU 🇺🇦, DHH, Hiroko Tabuchi, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️🌈, Rand Fishkin
The New York Times
Opinion | The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley
The New York Times
7 min read · From 2018 · They have weaponized social media, and we are all paying the price.
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The New York Times
Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis
The New York Times
20+ min read · From 2018 · Russian meddling, data sharing, hate speech — the social network faced one scandal after another. This is how Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg responded.
Reader View · Shared by 510, including Claudia Sommer, George Zachary, Klaus Eck, Austin Kleon, Jane, OM, Gerd Leonhard, Rand Fishkin, Khoi Vinh, Mike Allton, Mathew Ingram, John Battelle, zeldman, zeynep tufekci, Oliver Reichenstein, Hannes Grassegger, Brian Solis - briansolis.eth, David Kirkpatrick, DHH, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork
The New York Times
Now More Than Ever, Facebook Is a ‘Mark Zuckerberg Production’
The New York Times
~13 min read · From 2020 · For years, he was an obsessive C.E.O. in some ways, distant in others. Then Facebook’s problems became too acute to leave to anyone else.
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The Verge
Mark Zuckerberg on taking his massive workforce remote
The Verge
10 min read · From 2020 · ‘We’re going to be the most forward-leaning company on remote work at our scale,’ Facebook’s CEO says. Half the company could be remote someday
Reader View · Shared by 126, including Casey Newton, dunschtig, Chris Messina, Katja Evertz, Jeremiah Owyang jowyang.eth, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
The Verge
‘Instagram can hurt us’: Mark Zuckerberg emails outline plan to neutralize competitors
The Verge
9 min read · 2020-07-29 · Antitrust panel says the messages show Zuckerberg trying to buy out his competition.
Reader View · Shared by 129, including Cory Doctorow, Gregor B. Rosenauer, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Mathew Ingram, dunschtig, Katja Evertz, Matt Navarra, Marsha Collier, Dominik Grolimund, Casey Newton, Ian M Calvert
Vox
Apple broke Facebook’s ad machine. Who’s going to fix it?
Vox
6 min read · Feb 14th · Apple made your phone more private — and created a huge problem for Mark Zuckerberg.
London Review of Books
You Are the Product
London Review of Books
20+ min read · From 2017 · At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’ when measuring its own size, means two…
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The Atlantic
The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroying Journalism
The Atlantic
20+ min read · From 2017 · Lip service to the crucial function of the Fourth Estate is not enough to sustain it.
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