Zuckerberg: President Warren would "suck" for Facebook

In July, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg held two hour-long internal employee meetings to discuss the business's future; The Verge obtained the recordings of those meetings, which reveal, among other things, that Zuckerberg dreads the possible election of Elizabeth Warren (Warren has pledged to break up Facebook and its Big Tech competitors if she becomes President in 2020).

Zuckerberg explains that he really only wants what's best for America, explaining that his vast monopoly profits allow him to invest in countermeasures to fight disinformation campaigns, and suggesting that if Facebook had to compete and therefore lower its margins, he would not be able to do be as effective.

Zuckerberg also explicitly stated that he would not testify before most governments (he already snubbed the British Parliament on this score). He dismisses the plight of Facebook's downtrodden and traumatized content moderators as "overdramatic" and announces that he's planning to launch a product to compete with Tiktok called "Lasso," launching it first in poorer countries where Tiktok has not yet penetrated. He also downplays the difficulties with launching Libra, Facebook's cryptocurrency venture.

When it comes to Facebook employees whose friends give them shit about working for a terrible, cancerous monopolist, Zuck tells them to remind their pals that Facebook "has their best interests at heart."

Leadership, people.

What can we do to help improve Facebooks self-image to our peers and friends that might have a negative opinion of the company?MZ: Well, look, I think humanizing stuff is always really important. So Ive always focused more on the substance and trying to deliver things, and a little bit less on the perception.