After what he called “quite a week,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke out about what he termed “the false picture of the company that is being painted.” “We care dee…
Today’s testimony was carried by CNN from the start, with Fox News also joining and MSNBC providing coverage.
Zuckerberg said in his missive that “Many of the claims don’t make any sense. If we wanted to ignore research, why would we create an industry-leading research program to understand these important issues in the first place?” Of course, many industries — such as big tobacco — funded studies revealing the harmful effects of their products without substantially altering those products in response.
In fact, Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday the world’s largest social media company is facing a “big tobacco, jaw dropping moment of truth” as the massive cache of internal whistleblower documents show Facebook put profits ahead of the safety of children, when it knew it was causing harm. The company’s CEO also denied that saying, “it’s very important to me that everything we build is safe and good for
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