Facebook is in trouble. But it’s not a singular problem or even a set of problems the social networking giant has recently faced — it’s been an overwhelming mountain of issues, some of them slowly burning for years, seemingly ready to join forces into one cataclysmic dumpster fire.
This is the picture of Facebook painted by a new, 12,000 word report by Wired, published Tuesday. The report’s authors, Wired’s editor in chief Nicholas Thompson and editor at large Fred Vogelstein, spoke to “65 current and former employees” to create a scathing deep dive into everything that was wrong on Facebook in the past 15 months, and the company’s apparent inability to properly fix most of it. Read more…
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