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Episode 165 — Mark Zuckerberg’s Projected Self

Exponent

Ben Thompson / James Allworth

Technology

4.6832 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

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 Ben Thompson: Facebook’s Privacy Cake — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Facebook, Phones, and Phonebooks — Stratechery Ben Thompson: The Social/Communications Map — Stratechery After an “identity crisis,” Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says he’s taught himself how to be happy again — Recode Ben Thompson: The Audacity of Copying Well — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Messaging: Mobile’s Killer App — Stratechery Ben Thompson: Open, Closed, and … Continue reading Episode 165 — Mark Zuckerberg’s Projected Self

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0:00.0

Hi, James.

0:01.5

Ben, how are you?

0:03.1

I'm doing okay. How are you?

0:04.6

I'm good.

0:05.7

Whatever was left over of that jet lag from last week, I woke up this morning, read the news,

0:10.7

and for whatever reason, it was completely gone.

0:13.3

Yes, Facebook Fury always wakes you up, huh?

0:16.1

Something.

0:16.8

I don't know about Fury, but something on the internet show woke me up, yes.

0:21.4

Yes, this is going to be another one of those episodes where we are recording before I have written,

0:26.4

but you will probably read what I wrote before you hear this.

0:29.3

So apologies in advance for any discrepancies.

0:32.4

But hopefully this will help.

0:33.3

Hopefully this will we can help figure out what my take is going to be here by getting your take first.

0:37.3

And we always know when it comes to Facebook that you have takes.

0:40.4

That I might do, yes.

0:43.0

So the context here is Mark Zuckerberg released to post today entitled A Privacy Focused Vision for Social Networking.

0:50.1

Were you standing up in applauding as you read this title?

0:52.5

I had raised eyebrows. I was very curious what he might have to say. I like the title, though.

0:58.5

So you get more into the reactions of this post, yours and others, but I think it's a word of sort of going over.

1:02.8

I would have just kind of just run through it real quick from the top and just sort of give context to this conversation.

1:07.5

Although we'll definitely put a link in the show notes. I presume most people will have heard about it. But the opening was sort of a broader context of the way that

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