Facebook's leaked documents this week reveal that the company's anticompetitive behavior is rooted in a fundamental paranoia that it is vulnerable to rivals
The company's anticompetitive behavior is rooted in a deep sense of fear that it's vulnerable to rivals — Oh fine, let's talk about some ancient Facebook history.
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@willoremus
Will Oremus
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Facebook execs: Why does the media always assume the worst of us and refuse to take our privacy claims at face value? It must be because they're elite gatekeepers who are bitter about losing their power to a democratized platform. Also Facebook execs: https://www.theguardian.com/…
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@livingstone_s
Sonia Livingstone
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“Zuckerberg's strategy to exert control over the app market during the time period covered by the documents triggered one ... employee to compare the company to villains from “Game of Thrones” Facebook leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends https://www.nbcnews.com/.…
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@forbes
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Internal emails from 2012 to 2015 show how online dating apps, particularly Tinder, went from being a nuisance to an important strategic partner to Facebook https://www.forbes.com/... by @AngelAuYeung https://twitter.com/...
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@forbes
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed Tinder co-founder, Sean Rad, as irrelevant but he still let the dating app get special access to users' data https://www.forbes.com/... by @AngelAuYeung https://twitter.com/...
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@sarahfrier
Sarah Frier
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The most fascinating thing from the document leak: seeing Facebook execs (many still there today!) argue in 2013 whether to block competitors from advertising. https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@jasoncross00
Jason Cross
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Zuck isn't alone here - this is at the heart of every company/department that makes the “it doesn't scale” argument for why they can't do The Right Thing™ in any moment. Implicit in the “it doesn't scale” argument is that scale is more important. (see: YouTube) https://twitter.co…
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@yoda
Drew Olanoff
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I'm pretty sure that we have enough context for this email from Zuck. Facebook is gonna make Microsoft's anti-competitive case look like Barney and Friends. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@yoda
Drew Olanoff
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Mark Zuckerberg has always been an unfit CEO. https://twitter.com/...
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@fmbutt
Farooq Butt
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Critiquing Facebook's sense of corporate responsibility is like shooting fish in a barrel. They couldn't be much worse. https://twitter.com/...
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@sarahfrier
Sarah Frier
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Zuck says they should block ads from the messaging apps WeChat, Kakao and Line. The next year, he buys WhatsApp. This gives you a taste of what the Facebook antitrust investigations from FTC & DOJ may find: a company paranoid about survival, even when it's winning.
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@campuscodi
Catalin Cimpanu
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I can confirm. I was whining about my employer on internal company chat clients as well. Staff walkouts weren't a trend at a time. https://twitter.com/...
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@autiomaa
Daniel Schildt
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“The documents show how Facebook considered itself to be a perpetual underdog fighting for survival, even after it was already the world's largest social network, passing 1 billion users at the end of 2012.” 😅 https://twitter.com/...