1 August, 2020
Imagine being in a pandemic world where Facebook doesn’t exist.
That’s what CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanted people to do as the tech giant released its Q2 financial results this week.
No connection with friends, he said. Businesses going under. No communal entertaining content. A disconnected, discombobulated world.
I would add to that. No viral videos of women abusing Bunnings staff and authorities. Less ability for people to share the anti-mask playbook. A slower spread of conspiracy theories. No platform for Pete Evans.
But while America is in turmoil, with civil unrest and a looming election in the face of a pandemic - speaking of which, there are almost 70,000 new daily cases of COVID-19 in the US - Zuckerberg framed Facebook as… patriotic?
(Which, by the way, did not go down well with TikTok.)
The tech industry, Zuckerberg said, is an American success story.
