Mark Zuckerberg Says It Will Take 3 Years to Fix Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg knew his keynote speech at F8 this year would not be like any other. His previous appearances at Facebook's annual developer's conference were all about the new products and technology Facebook was announcing that day, and the vision he would share for future triumphs.
But in the wake of Cambridge Analytica, fake news, Russian election-tampering, incendiary hate speech and did we mention Cambridge Analytica, Facebook has dished out serial apologies and embarked on a steady march of product adjustments and transparency initiatives, a course that is nowhere near completion. Zuckerberg understood that at this F8, he could not give short shrift to the near-existential crisis his company is undergoing. But he also didn't want to ignore the main function of F8—refilling the pipeline of new products and visions.
"The hardest decision this year hasn't actually been investing so much in safety and security," he says. "I mean, that was obvious—there was no choice to not do that. The real question is how do we also find a path to move forward on all the other things that our community expects from us."
