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I hope everyone gets this Facebook joke. (Original Post) JohnnyRingo Jan 11 OP
Ha! Ocelot II Jan 11 #1
Yep! GreenWave Jan 11 #2
I gotta say this is the first I've heard of this EYESORE 9001 Jan 11 #3
It's not true. None of it. JohnnyRingo Jan 11 #7
Sounds believable to me FoxNewsSucks Jan 11 #8
And Musk disappeared the creator of Tesla. ananda Jan 11 #17
Sorry. Slow on the caffeine uptake this morning. EYESORE 9001 Jan 11 #9
Hannah Arendt is pretty smart Lucky Luciano Jan 11 #12
Good one! samplegirl Jan 12 #28
Its a joke ColinC Jan 11 #19
If truth doesn't matter, The Madcap Jan 11 #4
Alternate facts do not need to be fact-checked. keithbvadu2 Jan 11 #5
Not the full history. Just enough to expain his character, or the lack thereof. (old article) usonian Jan 11 #6
LOL! nt (makes me want to post that on fb! lol) orleans Jan 11 #10
p.s. i googled chris hughes and found this article orleans Jan 11 #11
A very interesting life indeed. a kennedy Jan 11 #20
I posted this on FB a few days ago. I think I will post again to make sure everyone I know sees it. camartinwv Jan 11 #13
Good enough to spread like butter. Historic NY Jan 11 #14
A wonderful fun read! chouchou Jan 11 #15
Fortunately, one can post on Facebook - like here - that it's fake. As long as we can do that, who needs fact-checking. Silent Type Jan 11 #16
People need to flood moniss Jan 11 #18
Just asking... OldEurope Jan 12 #30
They have set the rule that anything at all moniss Jan 12 #31
It is the truth! WA-03 Democrat Jan 11 #21
It would be funny, if it wasn't truthy. nt Xipe Totec Jan 11 #22
The truthiness makes it funny! JoseBalow Jan 11 #24
haha I forgot about Truthiness! JohnnyRingo Jan 12 #26
Hilarious! red dog 1 Jan 11 #23
Joke is Chris Hughes is alive and well IbogaProject Jan 12 #25
This is how you lie well! Aussie105 Jan 12 #27
It's believable malaise Jan 12 #29
We don't need no stinkin' fact-checking! Martin68 Jan 12 #32

EYESORE 9001

(27,762 posts)
3. I gotta say this is the first I've heard of this
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 10:54 AM
Jan 11

What sort of acquaintances did zuck have back then? Ones that could make someone vanish entirely. I’m ignorant of zuck’s upbringing too.

JohnnyRingo

(19,600 posts)
7. It's not true. None of it.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:29 AM
Jan 11

...But since Zuck officially ended fact checking on his site, anything goes. Including lies about him.

The real punchline is that 40% of people online say they get their news from Facebook and other social media.

EYESORE 9001

(27,762 posts)
9. Sorry. Slow on the caffeine uptake this morning.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:38 AM
Jan 11

It’s getting to the point that nothing can be believed in media - corporate or social. Perhaps that’s the point.

Lucky Luciano

(11,561 posts)
12. Hannah Arendt is pretty smart
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:53 AM
Jan 11

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.

Hannah Arendt

samplegirl

(12,443 posts)
28. Good one!
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 07:23 AM
Jan 12

What an asskisser he turned out to be. Who would have thought? He never stopped insurrectionist's from posting there evil on Facebook!

ColinC

(11,098 posts)
19. Its a joke
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 05:40 PM
Jan 11

Higjlighting that lies like this(and worse ones) are now allowed to be spread via facebook since Facebook changed their rules.

usonian

(15,667 posts)
6. Not the full history. Just enough to expain his character, or the lack thereof. (old article)
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:19 AM
Jan 11
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-people-first-ever-mark-zuckerberg-harvard

So here’s what I know about Mark Zuckerberg. During those first few weeks of Facebook’s existence, while he was assuring his fellow college students that we could trust him with our identities, he had a private conversation on instant messenger with a friend. That conversation was subsequently leaked, and published by Silicon Valley Insider. It is as follows:

ZUCK: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard

ZUCK: just ask

ZUCK: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns

FRIEND: what!? how’d you manage that one?

ZUCK: people just submitted it

ZUCK: i don’t know why

ZUCK: they “trust me”

ZUCK: dumb fucks

In the intervening years, I’ve learned that Zuckerberg values his own privacy so much that he has security guards watching his trash, that he bought four houses surrounding his own house to avoid having neighbors, that he sued hundreds of Hawaiians to sever their claim to tiny plots of land within his massive Kauai estate, and that he secretly built tools to prevent further private messages from coming back to haunt him.

What I haven’t learned, or seen any sign of, is that he has changed his opinion of the intelligence of his users. It’s Zuckerberg’s world, and we’re all just a bunch of dumb fucks living in it.

orleans

(35,570 posts)
11. p.s. i googled chris hughes and found this article
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 11:51 AM
Jan 11

kind of an interesting / progressive guy it seems


https://www.forbes.com/profile/chris-hughes/

Chris Hughes grew up in small town North Carolina before heading off to Phillips Academy and then Harvard. He met Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz as a freshman at the Ivy League school, and joined the startup as its spokesperson. Internally nicknamed "the Empath," Hughes, who studied history and literature, focused on the site's functionality and user-friendliness instead of coding. In 2007, he left a growing Facebook to join then-senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign as the Director of Online Organizing. He spearheaded my.barackobama.com, a popular social media site for supporters. In 2012, Hughes bought a majority stake in the New Republic, a progressive-leaning magazine that focuses on politics and culture. His attempt to revamp the publication led to mass resignations across the newsroom, and he ultimately sold the magazine in 2016 after years of financial losses. Read Less




Hughes founded a social network for nonprofits called Jumo in 2010 and sold it one year later to publishing company Good. He then purchased the New Republic for $5 million in 2012 and invested another $20 million in the magazine before selling it in 2016. Since then, Hughes has been leading the fight against Facebook while supporting his universal basic income think-tank, Economic Security Project.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mnunez/2019/07/26/how-facebook-cofounder-chris-hughes-made-and-spent-his-fortune/
(more to this article from 2019)



Silent Type

(8,140 posts)
16. Fortunately, one can post on Facebook - like here - that it's fake. As long as we can do that, who needs fact-checking.
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 12:30 PM
Jan 11

Beside, I bet what passed as fact-checking on FB would not even have identified that as fake.

moniss

(6,456 posts)
18. People need to flood
Sat Jan 11, 2025, 01:19 PM
Jan 11

social media incessantly with tons of claims about horrible things these mega billionaires do both personally and in business. Go on quarterly earnings conference calls and ask about allegations of accounting fraud for example. Do everything possible to harm them.

OldEurope

(1,276 posts)
30. Just asking...
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 09:40 AM
Jan 12

...what are those rich men hiding in the basements of their gated palaces? Why do they still look so young?

moniss

(6,456 posts)
31. They have set the rule that anything at all
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 10:17 AM
Jan 12

can be said with impunity so if someone wants to say Tesla, by extension, is successful due to the blood sacrifice of children it should be perfectly fine. If He of Foul Odor wishes to publish a denial that's fine and they also set the rule that takes care of it and there is to be no legal action. Their rules. Hope they like them.

Aussie105

(6,676 posts)
27. This is how you lie well!
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:00 AM
Jan 12

Take some verifiable facts, spin them into a story, then hide your lie inside a web of truth.

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