"She said Facebook takes "the privacy, safety and well-being of all those who use our platform very seriously, ...""<p>The magic incantation.<p>Flawed reasoning: "We take X seriously" therefore there are no problems with X.<p>Contrast "seriously" with "seriously enough".<p>There must be more to it. There must be some science behind the use of the "take X seriously" statements.<p>"We've committed to not retaliating for this individual speaking to the Senate," she said.<p>Do they know who it is. Do they believe retaliation would be legal.<p>"Facebook's brand is bad, and I think Facebook, you know, would freely admit that," said Katie Harbath, a former public policy director at the company. "But, you know, nobody else is gonna come and defend the company besides themselves."<p>Why won't anyone else come and defend the company. Wouldn't advertisers, users (ad targets) and investors want to defend the company.<p>"In this next chapter of our company, I think we will effectively transition from people seeing us as primarily being a social media company to being a metaverse company," [Zuckerberg] told tech journalist Casey Newton this summer.<p>Try to escape bad rep. Social media bad. "We are not social media. We are metaverse."<p>"They've been able to weather these storms over and over again," said Yael Eisenstat, who worked at Facebook on elections integrity for political advertising in 2018.<p>"What I think is different this time is that I don't think they're fully understanding that internal employees have questions now."<p>After Facebook has "connected the world", then what. No more growth. What then.