Mark Zuckerberg complains about trying to create fake Facebook image

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose company has been widely criticized for allegedly putting its profits before security and misinformation, has said that it is trying to paint a false image of the company.

The publication this Monday of the so-called “Facebook papers”, that delve into the way in which the company prioritized its profits over security and misinformation, has redoubled the pressure on its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, on the same day that the social network presented its results.

These documents, released by a 17-media consortium including CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, are bringing new details to the leaks of a former company employee, Frances Haugen, who published The Wall Street Journal weeks ago.

For his part, Zuckerberg assured these reports that “criticism if it is in good faith helps to improve” the operation of the company, according to CNN.

However, in his view, “we are seeing a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false image of our company.”

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“The reality is that we have an open culture that encourages discussion and research on our work so that we can move forward on many complex issues that are not specific to us,” Zuckerberg adds.

On Monday, the company’s results were released amid what may be the biggest crisis in the 17-year history of the social media giant.

But despite the intense scrutiny it is receiving from the press and politicians, Facebook continues to gain users and shoot its profits, which in the first nine months of the year rose 62% compared to the same period of 2020, with profits of more than 9,000 million dollars in the last quarter. (I)