Zuckerberg told execs the company's at 'war,' called media coverage 'bulls---'

A previous job had the “tiger team” who would meet in the “war room”. But to the entire rest of the company they were mediocre middle-managers of a medium-sized IT department and everyone else called it the “comfy room” because it had sofas and a Nintendo.

Also, to anyone with similar delusions, a Bluetooth headset does not make you a gunship pilot...

Winning might be that you have carved out a niche market but that probably means you are a loser in the mass market, this is not inherently a bad thing in my mind.

> War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

-- George Orwell

I've come to the conclusion that the news/attention cycle is partly an emergent phenomenon explained by stuff like this. This means you get pretty big swings from one thing to another as editors chase each other to jump on the latest bandwagon and journalists push stories to every outlet they can find.

Add to that all the PR agencies, fake think tanks, spinmasters etc who will write pieces for hire and generally tip the scales (for a price). So if you have a particular angle to promote, you hire one of these companies, they write stories, op ed pieces, publish "research" etc favourable to your angle and give them to friendly journalists who pretty much just put their name on the byline and submit the story.

Both of these seem like the kind of horrible dick moves that define Facebook as a company.

If they were truely bold they would look for ways to operate without gathering massive amounts of people's personal data or supporting those only interested in fostering chaos in the West.

If Zuckerberg was a truly bold leader he'd be winning hearts and minds by showing up to Parliaments in Canada and the UK when summoned over his company's past misdeeds ...instead of cowering behind generic press releases saying "we didn't do nufin'".