Mark Zuckerberg angrily fired back at a torrent of bad press on Monday, accusing whistleblowers and reporters of plotting against the company as it posted better-than-expected quarterly profits.
“My view is that what we are seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company,” Zuckerberg said in a Monday call with investors.
Zuckerberg was fighting back against recent news reports on Facebook struggling to crack down on human trafficking, doing little to address hate speech and making mental health issues worse for teen girls.
Whistleblower Frances Haugen and other critics have argued that the company let these issues fester as they prioritized growth — an idea Zuckerberg rejected.
“It makes it a good soundbite to say that we don’t solve these impossible tradeoffs because we’re just focused on making money, but the reality is these questions are not primarily about our business, but about balancing different difficult social values,” the CEO said. “We believe that our systems are the most effective at reducing harmful content across the industry.”
Zuckerberg even appeared to accuse Haugen and journalists of unfairly punishing Facebook for studying the effects of its own platform.
“I worry about the incentives that we are creating for other companies to be as introspective as we’ve been,” said Zuckerberg in apparent reference to Haugen leaking Facebook’s damning internal studies.
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