Dozens of posts in private invitation-only Facebook groups called for Whitmer to be hanged, lynched, shot, beaten or beheaded. One suggested crowdfunding sources to hire a hitman to kill her. – Daniel Villarreal Writing in Newsweek magazine on death threats to Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan from anti-lockdown protesters.
Facebook, all of them, they’re all about making money. Their business model is to make money at the expense of the truth and the facts…and they defend that. – Nancy Pelosi
Facebook’s inaction in taking down Trump’s post inciting violence makes me ashamed to work here. I absolutely disagree with it…Silence is complicity. – Lauren Tan Software engineer with Facebook.
In Books A SAD, DELUSIONAL, DANGEROUS MAN… No books, No reading, No friends, No music, No curiosity, No patience, No integrity, No compassion, No empathy, No loyalty, No conscience, No courage, No manners, No respect, No character, No morality, No honor, Not even a dog. – Unfit: The Documentary Film Caption to Donald Trump photo on film’s Facebook page.
I know many people are upset that we’ve left the President’s posts up, but our position is that we should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled out in clear policies. – Mark Zuckerberg Why Facebook left up Donald Trump Minneapolis posts – “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”.
Facebook, as important as it is and as valuable as it could be, is like the chemical companies in the 1950s when they used to pour mercury into fresh water and spew toxic chemicals into the atmosphere. – Roger McNamee
Facebook is basically promoting hate speech, disinformation, conspiracy theories, because those things are good for its business. – Roger McNamee
As an investor, it never occurred to me that Facebook would ever be a weapon, that people would do harm with it. – Roger McNamee
I do not believe the employees at Google, Facebook, or Twitter ever imagined their products would harm democracy in the United States or anywhere else. But the systems they built are doing just that. – Roger McNamee
All this hate and violence is being facilitated by a handful of internet companies that amount to the greatest propaganda machine in history. Facebook, YouTube and Google, Twitter and others – they reach billions of people. The algorithms these platforms depend on deliberately amplify the type of content that keeps users engaged – stories that appeal to our baser instincts and that trigger outrage and fear. – Sacha Baron Cohen
Zuckerberg rejected $2 billion for Facebook and has successfully created a company worth nearly $200 billion. – Jay Samit
I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it. – Jason Calacanis
I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there. – Jason Mraz
In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games. – Adam D’Angelo
When I first came out there was no such thing as Twitter or Facebook. And the blogs! Like, what is that? – Christina Aguilera
I’m at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there’s a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing. – Aminatta Forna
The hours Facebook users put into their profiles and lists and updates is the labor that Facebook then sells to the market researchers and advertisers it serves. – Douglas Rushkoff
2006, I started ‘WineLibrary TV.’ To build ‘WineLibrary TV,’ I started using Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter in 2008. – Gary Vaynerchuk
There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much. – Elmore Leonard