Casey Newton

And by the way, I would say that this perspective does run counter to what I think the stereotype of early Zuckerberg was, and to some extent still remains, which is a sort of bloodless lizard creature who has no empathy and does not understand normal human relationships. Yeah. I never really thought that that was true.

I think that in order to do what Zuckerberg does, you have to get deeply in touch with what people want. He just does it differently than most people.

I think that in order to do what Zuckerberg does, you have to get deeply in touch with what people want. He just does it differently than most people.

I think that in order to do what Zuckerberg does, you have to get deeply in touch with what people want. He just does it differently than most people.

Yes, I do think that the social network played a huge role in shaping not just the perception of Zuckerberg, but it shaped Zuckerberg itself. Like, it was a very formative moment for him.

Yes, I do think that the social network played a huge role in shaping not just the perception of Zuckerberg, but it shaped Zuckerberg itself. Like, it was a very formative moment for him.

Yes, I do think that the social network played a huge role in shaping not just the perception of Zuckerberg, but it shaped Zuckerberg itself. Like, it was a very formative moment for him.

Imagine being Zuckerberg, still in your early 20s, and there's an Oscar-winning movie that is just based on a series of lies about how you started this company, right? Can you say more about that? What were the lies?

Imagine being Zuckerberg, still in your early 20s, and there's an Oscar-winning movie that is just based on a series of lies about how you started this company, right? Can you say more about that? What were the lies?

Imagine being Zuckerberg, still in your early 20s, and there's an Oscar-winning movie that is just based on a series of lies about how you started this company, right? Can you say more about that? What were the lies?

The premise of Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network is that Mark Zuckerberg was a unlucky in love loser who started Facebook because he was desperate to meet girls and would essentially stop at nothing to do that. When in reality, At Harvard, Zuckerberg was dating the woman who is now still his wife, Priscilla Chan, and that was true the entire time.

The premise of Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network is that Mark Zuckerberg was a unlucky in love loser who started Facebook because he was desperate to meet girls and would essentially stop at nothing to do that. When in reality, At Harvard, Zuckerberg was dating the woman who is now still his wife, Priscilla Chan, and that was true the entire time.

The premise of Aaron Sorkin's The Social Network is that Mark Zuckerberg was a unlucky in love loser who started Facebook because he was desperate to meet girls and would essentially stop at nothing to do that. When in reality, At Harvard, Zuckerberg was dating the woman who is now still his wife, Priscilla Chan, and that was true the entire time.

And it's just sort of left on the cutting room floor, but it actually is quite a profound deception because the entire film rests on this premise of why Facebook was started that just is not true.

And it's just sort of left on the cutting room floor, but it actually is quite a profound deception because the entire film rests on this premise of why Facebook was started that just is not true.

And it's just sort of left on the cutting room floor, but it actually is quite a profound deception because the entire film rests on this premise of why Facebook was started that just is not true.

Before 2016, Facebook had... pretty light moderation in a lot of ways. Their workforce of content moderators was relatively small. They would do irresponsible things like set up shop in countries in the global south where they did not have any or more than a couple employees who spoke the language. It was just sort of grow, grow, grow at all costs.

Before 2016, Facebook had... pretty light moderation in a lot of ways. Their workforce of content moderators was relatively small. They would do irresponsible things like set up shop in countries in the global south where they did not have any or more than a couple employees who spoke the language. It was just sort of grow, grow, grow at all costs.

Before 2016, Facebook had... pretty light moderation in a lot of ways. Their workforce of content moderators was relatively small. They would do irresponsible things like set up shop in countries in the global south where they did not have any or more than a couple employees who spoke the language. It was just sort of grow, grow, grow at all costs.

but he had this understanding of free speech, which was just frankly very similar to the set of values that were handed to me growing up in America in the 80s and 90s, where, for example, there was a lot of tolerance for Holocaust denial, not because folks agreed with it, but because we held this value of free speech so preciously in America that we thought that the way to fight back against all forms of prejudice