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Re:Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs by anonu on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:50AM (#16688304)
I'm old enough to remember the 1993 Jack in the Box e. coli outbreak... and then fast-forward to Chipotle's 2015 handling of the same thing. The responses between then and now were staggering differently. Back then it was "deny, deny, deny". In today's PR conscious world - for better or worse - the people expect an immediate confession from the very top.

Given's FB's breadth and depth of exposure to many people's lives, I would expect no less than to see Zuck fielding questions in front of the cameras. It will certainly be a circus and many people will tune in to watch - but if handled correctly can bring an enormous amount of goodwill back to FB - which it desperately needs right now.

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Re:Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs by Silhouette on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:11AM (#16688528)
Perhaps this is a form of karma. After all, the change in how PR works today compared to last century has a lot to do with the rise of social media and 24 hour news cycles.
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Re:Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs by liberte82 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:21PM (#16691313)
The irony of Zuckerberg responding to this spectacle in an entirely old-school and 20th century way, blind to how the social media landscape has changed PR.
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Re:Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs by VVyattPrentice on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:31AM (#16688740)
Zuckerberg seems confident he doesn't need to really give a crap. FB will be fine either way. Why bother? He's got better things to do with his time.
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Re:Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs by WalterSear on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:32AM (#16689479)
IMHO, it's bluff. There's evidence to suggest that that a frank discussion would be an extreme liability for him, and for facebook.

Here's a lengthy timeline of his many publicly verified interactions with Putin's lackeys, and the financial support they have provided facebook:

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/85p30j/deleteface...

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Re:Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs by ravenstine on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:30AM (#16689438)
Or is it more likely that he's counting on having his eggs in more baskets than just the Facebook one? I don't think he doesn't give a crap because he thinks Facebook is invincible.
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Re:Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs by anonu on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @12:01PM (#16689779)
Will it be fine? Stock market shaved 10 percent of it's market cap on this. I suppose if you're a $500bn or $450bn company you'll be fine either way... But this is only a week... So time will tell how far the negative press goes with this... And ultimately how many of it's 2bn users actually care.
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