Mark Zuckerberg thinks Facebook's horrible year was actually pretty good

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on Friday: proud of the progress we've made. Yes, they really are that deluded.

In his post on Facebook today, the Facebook CEO said some of the company's problems with misinformation and protecting users personal data will take years to solve.

We've fundamentally altered our DNA to focus more on preventing harm in all our services, and we've systematically shifted a large portion of our company to work on preventing harm, he wrote.

Zuck claims Facebook now has 30,000 workers focused on safety, or roughly one Facebook safety employee per every 75,600 monthly active users.

Mark Zuckerberg used the word 'progress' six times in his year-end self-assessment,notes Ryan Mac. That's one way of looking at Facebook's 2018.

From Ryan's Buzzfeed post:

Though much of what Zuckerberg wrote on Friday is not new it is mostly rehashed from previous talking points the Facebook chiefs note underscored the notion that Facebook will never be perfect. Zuckerberg acknowledges that election interference and harmful speech can never be fully solved

That doesn't mean we'll catch every bad actor or piece of bad content, or that people won't find more examples of past mistakes before we improved our systems, he notes.

As if to prove his point, one of the final scandals the company faced in 2018? An admission on Wednesday from one of its early investors, Reid Hoffman, who said he financed a misinformation campaign in the during the 2017 special election for an Alabama Senate seat. Facebook has not taken action against Hoffmans account and said an investigation remains ongoing.