The magic incantation.
Flawed reasoning: "We take X seriously" therefore there are no problems with X.
Contrast "seriously" with "seriously enough".
There must be more to it. There must be some science behind the use of the "take X seriously" statements.
"We've committed to not retaliating for this individual speaking to the Senate," she said.
Do they know who it is. Do they believe retaliation would be legal.
"Facebook's brand is bad, and I think Facebook, you know, would freely admit that," said Katie Harbath, a former public policy director at the company. "But, you know, nobody else is gonna come and defend the company besides themselves."
Why won't anyone else come and defend the company. Wouldn't advertisers, users (ad targets) and investors want to defend the company.
"In this next chapter of our company, I think we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company," [Zuckerberg] told tech journalist Casey Newton this summer.
Try to escape bad rep. Social media bad. "We are not social media. We are metaverse."
"They've been able to weather these storms over and over again," said Yael Eisenstat, who worked at Facebook on elections integrity for political advertising in 2018.
"What I think is different this time is that I don't think they're fully understanding that internal employees have questions now."
After Facebook has "connected the world", then what. No more growth. What then.