“[Zuckerberg] joked repeatedly about how he would have been fired several times over the years if he had not negotiated for total control over the company, drawing laughter from his employees.”
The telling thing is they won’t “go to the mat” and “fight” against the “existential” threat of the corrupt white supremacist predator president that their board member went on national TV to endorse.
I mean, this guy is actually *in office* and actually publicly stated his intention to undermine one of Facebook’s biggest initiatives, and Zuck responded by… kissing the ring. 
Mark: you’re already on the mat.
Simple as this.
This elision is a strategy.
Facebook Newsroom didn’t say a peep when Trump explicitly, publicly undermined one of their most strategically important announcements in years.
