Rosenthal: Facebook leadership repeated Standard Oil's mistake responding to press scrutiny
David Rosenthal · Standard Oil Part II (Extended Cut) · Acquired · Oct 19, 2021 · at 2:20:39
Acquired co-host David Rosenthal compares Facebook leadership's reaction to the WSJ 'Facebook Files' with Standard Oil's dismissive response to Ida Tarbell.
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“And I think about not all the big tech companies, but, again, to pick on Facebook, like, this really seems to, on the outside, to be the case with Facebook right now and, like, the Facebook files and everything going on with the Wall Street Journal, like, it really seems like leadership there. Again, whatever what's right or wrong, like, they're, like, when the When the Tarbell articles came out and Rockefeller and everybody was like, oh, we don't need to say anything here. Like, they're playing this wrong, you know, and I wonder, I bet there are a lot of people deep within the organization that are actually doing the work who are like, we should be have a different strategy here, but can't have their voices heard, you know”
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