| This author located in the UK believes FB should be broken up: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/03/26/zuckerberg-m... He believes that Facebook's board is susceptible to Silicon Valley groupthink and with Thiel there is clear conflict in interest due to Palantir. He argues the board is "feeble" because Zuckerberg cant be sacked. The author thinks Zuckerberg has made some "stupid" and "arrogant" moves. For example last year as an experiment, he cut professionally produced news from the main newsfeed in Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Bolivia, Cambodia, Serbia and Slovakia making those countries "beta-testers" for "a political debate free of facts". He recalls in 2007 he wrote two news stories about FB for a former employer. One was about some software that "connected to Facebook's then-new "social graph" and siphoned off personal information for resale." The other was about an advertiser, Vodafone, who pulled its ads from Facebook because it had been placed on a page promoting the British National Party. He suggests that because stories like these could easily have been written as recent as last week, it shows how FB's problems are not new and how Zuckerberg has refused to acknowledge them for the last ten years let alone try to "fix" them. He thinks FB should not be "fixed"; rather, it should be "broken and remade". |