Recode’s Kurt Wagner explains how the social media giant is trying to make things right on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is devoting 2018 to fixing Facebook, and he has acted fast: In recent weeks, the social media giant has already announced major changes to the main source of its revenue, the News Feed, and acknowledged in a series of blog posts that social media can sometimes be bad for our psyches and for democracy.
On the latest episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, Recode’s senior social media editor, Kurt Wagner, said Facebook is in a difficult uphill battle to win back the trust of its users.
“Honestly, we’re going to have to have a few more elections that don’t result in Russian meddling before people say, ‘Okay, maybe Facebook has that problem fixed,’” Wagner said. “That is years away. I don’t see Facebook shedding this problem for a long time...
