[foklepoint]

Mark Zuckerberg didn't write this. Facebook does this thing where they make it seem like it has one voice speaking for them - which is Mark. What is happening is multiple people in Facebook's PR department wrote this. I would even argue the title is misleading. We're feeding into the frenzy that Mark is writing this on behalf of Facebook. We should say it like it is. "Facebook released a statement"

[chatmasta]

The President has almost never written his own speeches, and yet we don't say they're written by his speechwriter. We say "The President delivered a speech."

Mark certainly signed off on this post, or at least on the people who wrote it. Why should we treat it any differently than when any public figure "says" something?

[nihonde]

This reminds me of Big Brother, or (perhaps more appropriate) The Wizard of Oz. It is always more than a little creepy to encounter a digital simulacrum that is actually a group effort.