![]() ![]() “Zucked” is the story of why I became convinced, in spite of myself, that even though Facebook provided a compelling experience for most of its users, it was terrible for America and needed to change or be changed, and what I have tried to do about it. I learned that my trust in Facebook had been misplaced. What I learned in the months that followed shocked and disappointed me. In the beginning, I assumed that Facebook was a victim and I just wanted to warn my friends. ![]() I started pulling on that thread and uncovered a catastrophe. I had spent a career trying to draw smart conclusions from incomplete information, and one day early in 2016 I started to see things happening on Facebook that did not look right. ![]() It would never have occurred to me to be an anti-Facebook activist. In terms of my own narrow self-interest, I had no reason to bite Facebook’s hand. Even now, I still own shares in Facebook. I had been an early advisor to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg- Zuck, to many colleagues and friends- and an early investor in Facebook. Tech had been my career and my passion, but by 2016, I was backing away from full-time professional investing and contemplating retirement. I am a longtime tech investor and evangelist. ![]()
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