What Makes Companies Great Is Inevitably What Make Companies Fail

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facebook is in the eno the centre of a firing squad basically everyday, constantly. The whole last three to four years has been one big distraction from the actual core of running facebook. You're getting this sort of toxic mixture of the ground underneath facebook changing from a market perspective. And meanwhile, you have all these personal attacks on himself, like ya, who went t take their eyes off the ball. Anyhow, we ran the gamet there. I think we touched on all parts of itwe fended them, we attacked them. We even had a little bit of sampathy for them. Is goodtre visit thit's a good thing where we have a litle more

Ben and James discuss Facebook from multiple angles, including child sexual abuse material, encryption, Oculus, and a leaked all-hands meeting.

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Ben Thompson: Friction — Stratechery
The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong? — New York Times
Ben Thompson: Child Sexual Abuse Material Online, The Problem With Community, Towards More Friction — Stratechery
Casey Newton: Read The Full Transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s Leaked Internal Facebook Meetings — The Verge
Ben Thompson: Facebook’s All-Hands Leak, Facebook Versus Warren, Zuckerberg’s Culture
— Stratechery
Attorney General Bill Barr Will Ask Zuckerberg To Halt Plans For End-To-End Encryption Across Facebook’s Apps — BuzzFeed News
Ben Thompson: Facebook’s Privacy Cake — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: Beachheads and Obstacles — Stratechery
Ben Thompson: The Curse of Culture — Stratechery