If people in powerful positions continue to hire and cast only people who look like them, sound like them, come from the same neighborhoods they grew up in, they will never have a greater understanding of experiences different from their own....The beauty of social media is it's completely democratic. Everyone has a say. Everyone's voice counts, and everyone has a chance to paint the world from their own perspective.
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So I think that the scale of the systems has created this responsibility for us, where we have to be more proactive about finding and addressing issues [harmful content]. And we can do that both by building technology that is possible now, but wasn't even possible five or ten years ago, and by hiring people at a scale that would not have been possible for us before.
The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'
At Meta, we've been building social experiences for 20 years now. Originally, it took the form of a website, then mobile apps. But the thing is, I never thought about us as a social media company. We're not a social app company, we are a social connection company.
The community - more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.
I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.
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