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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI hope everyone gets this Facebook joke.
Testing Mark Zuckerbergs sense of humor on FB.
Ocelot II
(121,826 posts)GreenWave
(9,604 posts)EYESORE 9001
(27,664 posts)What sort of acquaintances did zuck have back then? Ones that could make someone vanish entirely. Im ignorant of zucks upbringing too.
JohnnyRingo
(19,484 posts)...But since Zuck officially ended fact checking on his site, anything goes. Including lies about him.
The real punchline is that 40% of people online say they get their news from Facebook and other social media.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,866 posts)Likely, even. I'd bet that sort of thing happens a lot.
ananda
(31,040 posts)This is fun,
EYESORE 9001
(27,664 posts)Its getting to the point that nothing can be believed in media - corporate or social. Perhaps thats the point.
Lucky Luciano
(11,519 posts)The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
Hannah Arendt
samplegirl
(12,282 posts)What an asskisser he turned out to be. Who would have thought? He never stopped insurrectionist's from posting there evil on Facebook!
ColinC
(11,061 posts)Higjlighting that lies like this(and worse ones) are now allowed to be spread via facebook since Facebook changed their rules.
The Madcap
(721 posts)Then staying away from conversation is probably the safest path in daily life.
keithbvadu2
(40,730 posts)Check it out if you do not believe me.
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usonian
(15,058 posts)ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard
ZUCK: just ask
ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
FRIEND: what!? howd you manage that one?
ZUCK: people just submitted it
ZUCK: i dont know why
ZUCK: they trust me
ZUCK: dumb fucks
In the intervening years, Ive learned that Zuckerberg values his own privacy so much that he has security guards watching his trash, that he bought four houses surrounding his own house to avoid having neighbors, that he sued hundreds of Hawaiians to sever their claim to tiny plots of land within his massive Kauai estate, and that he secretly built tools to prevent further private messages from coming back to haunt him.
What I havent learned, or seen any sign of, is that he has changed his opinion of the intelligence of his users. Its Zuckerbergs world, and were all just a bunch of dumb fucks living in it.
orleans
(35,400 posts)orleans
(35,400 posts)kind of an interesting / progressive guy it seems
https://www.forbes.com/profile/chris-hughes/
Chris Hughes grew up in small town North Carolina before heading off to Phillips Academy and then Harvard. He met Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz as a freshman at the Ivy League school, and joined the startup as its spokesperson. Internally nicknamed "the Empath," Hughes, who studied history and literature, focused on the site's functionality and user-friendliness instead of coding. In 2007, he left a growing Facebook to join then-senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign as the Director of Online Organizing. He spearheaded my.barackobama.com, a popular social media site for supporters. In 2012, Hughes bought a majority stake in the New Republic, a progressive-leaning magazine that focuses on politics and culture. His attempt to revamp the publication led to mass resignations across the newsroom, and he ultimately sold the magazine in 2016 after years of financial losses. Read Less
Hughes founded a social network for nonprofits called Jumo in 2010 and sold it one year later to publishing company Good. He then purchased the New Republic for $5 million in 2012 and invested another $20 million in the magazine before selling it in 2016. Since then, Hughes has been leading the fight against Facebook while supporting his universal basic income think-tank, Economic Security Project.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mnunez/2019/07/26/how-facebook-cofounder-chris-hughes-made-and-spent-his-fortune/
(more to this article from 2019)
a kennedy
(32,472 posts)camartinwv
(92 posts)Historic NY
(38,164 posts)chouchou
(1,500 posts)Silent Type
(7,558 posts)Beside, I bet what passed as fact-checking on FB would not even have identified that as fake.
moniss
(6,243 posts)social media incessantly with tons of claims about horrible things these mega billionaires do both personally and in business. Go on quarterly earnings conference calls and ask about allegations of accounting fraud for example. Do everything possible to harm them.
OldEurope
(1,276 posts)...what are those rich men hiding in the basements of their gated palaces? Why do they still look so young?
moniss
(6,243 posts)can be said with impunity so if someone wants to say Tesla, by extension, is successful due to the blood sacrifice of children it should be perfectly fine. If He of Foul Odor wishes to publish a denial that's fine and they also set the rule that takes care of it and there is to be no legal action. Their rules. Hope they like them.
WA-03 Democrat
(3,276 posts)Hughes body was never found. Zuck moved to Palo Alto shortly after his death.
Xipe Totec
(44,136 posts)JoseBalow
(5,880 posts)JohnnyRingo
(19,484 posts)I guess it's a pretty good example.
red dog 1
(29,635 posts)IbogaProject
(3,896 posts)And he did help create it. Only the missing part and the timing are BS.
Aussie105
(6,542 posts)Take some verifiable facts, spin them into a story, then hide your lie inside a web of truth.
malaise
(279,414 posts)😂😂😂