Mark Zuckerberg responds to claims that Facebook prioritises profit over safety and wellbeing.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has publicly addressed claims that the social media giant prioritises profit over safety and wellbeing is „just not true“. „We care deeply about issues like safety, wellbeing, and mental health. It’s difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives. At the most basic level, I think most of us just don’t recognize the false picture of the company that is being painted,“ Zuckerberg wrote in note to Facebook employees that he publicly posted on his Facebook page. „The argument that we deliberately push content that makes people angry for profit is deeply illogical,“ he continued. „We make money from ads, and advertisers consistently tell us they don’t want their ads next to harmful or angry content. And I don’t know any tech company that sets out to build products that make people angry or depressed. The moral, business and product incentives all point in the opposite direction.“ The response comes after Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen fronted the US Senate as part of its inquiry into Facebook’s operations, declaring the company as „morally bankrupt“ and casting „the choices being made inside of Facebook“ as „disastrous for our children, our privacy, and our democracy“.
