Sorry to throw cold water on this but Nick Clegg is an absolutely worthless speaker unless it’s in a deposition under oath. They’re literally giving the stage to a PR exec covering for his bosses representing a company with zero remaining trust and credibility.
https://twitter.com/SilsK/status/1455261792515526658
On a related note, same applies to Andrew Bosworth… asking him some questions about the whistleblower docs as an obligatory setup to discussing metaverse is not really appropriate in today’s context. /2
A simple question for Bosworth would be pinning him down on what Joseph Chancellor did while assigned to his division of the company, what they knew when and why Facebook covered-up his entire involvement. /3
Or ask him about the lies in his “leaked memo” in 2019 in light of the channel 4 documentary that came out in the Fall of 2020. /4
And I wouldn’t allow name “Alex Schultz” to just be glossed over in the context of the rename of the company. He’s likely at the center of at least one SEC complaint - the dark arts core - in the integrity of the platform, the growth hacking and the downstream harms revealed. /5
Bosworth unchecked but absolutely preposterous statement #1: “we built, as far as I know, the first ranked content feed.” /6
Bosworth unchecked but absolutely preposterous statement #2 “Everything we do is centered around consumers and consumer expectations.” /7
Hello. If CEO Zuckerberg says Facebook was working on the re-brand six months ago that doesn’t make the suggestion they rolled it out to distract the press into a “conspiracy theory” suggesting this discounts their always-offensive PR strategy and decision to press forward. /8
interviewer and Bosworth both characterize news passively as “scrutiny” (of a big company) without even mentioning any details. In the context of “exclusives with Zuckerberg” and leaked re-brand not to mention prior leaks, these inevitably read as access plays. /9
Instead of linking to it, I’m going to bump back up this statement and brave, smart perspective from @AdrienneLaF, “Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.” theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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