Episode 165 — Mark Zuckerberg’s Projected Self

Ben and James discuss Mark Zuckerberg’s latest missive, whether Facebook is actually changing anything, and wonder if the company will ever tell the unvarnished truth.

Links

• Mark Zuckerberg: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking — Facebook (facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/a-privacy-f…)

• Ben Thompson: Facebook’s Privacy Cake — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2019/facebooks-privacy-cake)

• Ben Thompson: Facebook, Phones, and Phonebooks — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/what-facebook-is-and-isnt)

• Ben Thompson: The Social/Communications Map — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2013/socialcommunication-map)

• After an “identity crisis,” Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says he’s taught himself how to be happy again — Recode (recode.net/podcasts/2019/3/4/18247010/chamath-…)

• Ben Thompson: The Audacity of Copying Well — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2016/the-audacity-of-copying-w…)

• Ben Thompson: Messaging: Mobile’s Killer App — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2014/messaging-mobiles-killer-…)

• Ben Thompson: Open, Closed, and Privacy — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2018/open-closed-and-privacy)

• Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed — New York Times (nytimes.com/2019/02/28/technology/cryptocurren…)

• Zeynep Tufekci: Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook — Wired (wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology…)

• Ben Thompson: Strategy Credit — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2013/strategy-credit)

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson (twitter.com/benthompson), Stratechery (stratechery.com)

• James Allworth, @jamesallworth (twitter.com/jamesallworth), Harvard Business Review (hbr.org/search?term=James+Allworth&sort=po…)

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