Facebook's behavior is highly analogous to, and best viewed in terms of, narcissistic personality disorder. Thus when people bring up their legitimate concerns about how FB screwed them in one way or another, Facebook thinks the problem is the "beating" they're taking in the press.
I really don't want to read a single word about the "beating" they're taking. It helps Facebook by exaggerating the harm done to them, and it pats the press on the back for its supposed effectiveness. Facebook keeps growing and doing the same shit, that's how effective it is. "Maybe if we just had more facts!" says the well-meaning fool who then loses to a Zuckerberg or a Trump. Dream on, the world doesn't run on facts and virtue. By way of contrast, if Facebook executives had to suffer an actual beating, Rodney King style, things would be fixed in a hurry. I confess I would love to be holding one of the night sticks too.
Your larger point is caught in the hyperbole but the point of ‘the world doesn’t run on facts’ (meaning, I think, political world) is a good one.
FB get the appearance of pain and attrition. Press get more views and plaudits. Nothing changes.
They need actual pain to their organization (not violence to individuals of course) before a proper change will come. Think Microsoft pain in the 90’s. It seems Europe will again lead the charge on this.
Yes, the political world, the one in which Mark Zuckerberg is a player and in which almost none of us commenting here are players, unless maybe we were to unite into one bloc. That world (and to the extent that "that world" runs "the world," "the world" too) has little use for facts. I'm not saying it's great or that we should give up. (Or that they can escape the facts permanently.) But it is a fact. And each downvote of that fact, proves the world doesn't run on facts!
I really don't want to read a single word about the "beating" they're taking. It helps Facebook by exaggerating the harm done to them, and it pats the press on the back for its supposed effectiveness. Facebook keeps growing and doing the same shit, that's how effective it is. "Maybe if we just had more facts!" says the well-meaning fool who then loses to a Zuckerberg or a Trump. Dream on, the world doesn't run on facts and virtue. By way of contrast, if Facebook executives had to suffer an actual beating, Rodney King style, things would be fixed in a hurry. I confess I would love to be holding one of the night sticks too.