Mark Zuckerberg Hit Back at ‘Extremely Glib’ Apple Boss Tim Cook
The Apple CEO blasted Zuckerberg in a recent interview for turning their users into products
Jon Levine | April 2, 2018 @ 7:41 AM
Last Updated: April 3, 2018 @ 7:34 AM
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg responded to criticism from Tim Cook, saying the Apple chief’s analysis of his business was “glib” and untruthful. Last week, Cook blasted Facebook over its business model which monetized its customers at the expense of their privacy.
“You know, I find that argument, that if you’re not paying, that somehow we can’t care about you to be extremely glib. And not at all aligned with the truth,” Zuckerberg told Vox Media founder Ezra Klein in an interview released Monday.
“The reality here is that if you wanna build a service that helps connect everyone in the world, then there are a lot of people who can’t afford to pay. And therefore, as with a lot of media, having an advertising-supported model is the only rational model that can support building this service to reach people.”
Zuckerberg continued his defense, saying that just because the company sold user data to advertisers to sustain its billion-dollar social media empire, doesn’t mean that he is unsympathetic to user concerns.
“I make all of our decisions based on what’s going to matter to our community and improve the experience and focus much less and very little on the advertising side of the business.”
Zuckerberg has been humbled in recent weeks after his company became embroiled in a scandal surrounding protection of user data. Cambridge Analytica, a company closely aligned with Republicans working to elect Donald Trump, used data improperly collected from 50 million accounts to develop targeted Facebook messaging on the platform. The resulting outrage has led to a decline in the company’s stock price.
Even before the Cambridge Analytica revelation, Facebook had been facing questions over whether they had too easily allowed itself to be used by foreign interests to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
9 Times New York Times Editorial Made Everyone Freak Out
Bari Weiss: We're All Fascists Now
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David Brooks: 'Girl I Want Your Body'
New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks offered his spin on the MeToo movement in November. But his attempt to speak the language of sex and passion led him to write some lines like "girl I want your body" and "sex is a gold nugget" and the Internet went nuts.
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Bret Stephens' "A Defense, of Sorts, for Harvey Weinstein"
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David Brooks Urges "Respect to Gun Owners" After Parkland, Florida Massacre
David Brooks set passions aflame after urging "respect" for gun owners after 17 children were killed at a school shooting in Parkland, Florida. "So if you want to stop school shootings it's not enough just to vent and march. It's necessary to let people from Red America lead the way, and to show respect to gun owners at all points," he wrote.
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Quinn "Been Friends with Various Neo-Nazis" Norton
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Bari Weiss Attacks Aziz Ansari Accuser: 'I'll Get Crushed for This'
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Bari Weiss Quotes Hamilton: 'Immigrants: We Get the Job Done"
Anti-Weiss Internet mobs were set ablaze after she tweeted out "Immigrants: we get the job done," in response to Olympian Mirai Nagasu's triple axel. Nagasu was born in California to immigrant parents and Twitter furiously dragged her for not paying sufficient deference to the decision.
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James Bennet Diversifies the Times Opinion Pages
Editorial Page Editor James Bennet has said his mission is to broaden editorial diversity on the Times newsroom. The initiative has often been rocky and the paper has been beset by online criticism of hiring choices, and targeted leaks by Times employees unhappy with his changes.
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David Brooks Sandwich-Shames Less Educated Friend
Perhaps most egregious of all in the mind of Internet warriors was Brooks' confession in a July, 2017 column that he once took a friend "with only a high school degree" into a gourmet sandwich shop but decided to pull a quick switch for Mexican food after, so he said, she appeared overwhelmed by words like Soppressata and Capicollo.
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Bari Weiss: We're All Fascists Now
The New York Times opinion editor set the Internet ablaze after going after college students who she said were trying to shut down free speech. Critics pointed to Weiss mistakenly linking two fake ANTIFA Twitter accounts
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