The Real Winner in the Facebook Leak Is Elizabeth Warren
A public beef with the social network helped Trump in 2016. Here’s how it will help her, too.
We now know what it’s like to sit in on a Facebook meeting led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, thanks to segments of a leaked recording published by the Verge on Tuesday. Turns out it’s only marginally more interesting than sitting in on any other large company meeting. But it did put Facebook publicly at odds with a major presidential candidate — and helped her campaign in the process.
In a pair of meetings with employees held in late July, the Facebook chief addressed the rise of rival TikTok, acknowledged and downplayed a couple of then-recent controversies, made a few self-deprecating jokes, and took questions about the company’s corporate structure and his own role in testifying before various national governments.
As leaked audio goes, this is about as tame as it gets. Which makes sense: A meeting open to thousands of Facebook employees is hardly a place for executive candor, even if Zuckerberg didn’t expect to see the transcript pop up on a tech site two months later. The company found it so un-embarrassing that Zuckerberg went ahead and published a link to the Verge story on his own Facebook page. (The Verge says it will publish more in the…
