things are true. but what frances is providing is more documentation from inside the company that in some cases they did research about what impacts their platform were having on people and there were employees who said maybe we should change some things. the company often decided to scale things back, but not all the way to maybe make changes, but not quite fast enough. and frances is saying, and she has many documents to back up some of her claims including research from inside the company that facebook did make a lot of decisions based purely on profit rather than the well-being of its billions of users. that big tobacco comparison is compelling. listen to facebook s nick kleg dismiss it. the big tobacco comparison is everywhere right now. how do you feel about those comparisons too big tobacco? i think they re profoundly false. why? well, because i don t think it s remotely like tobacco.
week we referred one of the episode of the wall street journal s series something called crosscheck, an internal mechanism where we imply checks to different accounts because we felt there was legitimate criticism is there. i hear what you re saying. a part of me feels like i m interviewing the head of a tobacco company right now. a part of me feels like i m interviewing the head of a giant casino that gets rich by tricking their customers and making them addicted. the big tobacco comparison is everywhere now. how do you feel about those big comparisons to big tobacco? i think they re profoundly false. why? because i don t think it s remotely like tobacco. social media apps are apps. people download them on their phones. why do they do that? it has to be a reason why a third of the world s population enjoys using these apps. they do it because they like
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