How quickly the bad blood for Mark Zuckerberg has been forgotten.
When Zuckerberg’s Meta released a Twitter rival, Threads, reporters and left-leaning types (myself included) flocked to the new app as a potential refuge from Musk’s Twitter.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend seemed to be the logic of the moment.
I invited Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen onto the podcast to discuss the sudden embrace of Threads, her ongoing criticisms of how Facebook operates, and her new book, The Power of One.
Haugen, for one, has not forgotten the problems with Facebook. She hadn’t downloaded Threads, she told me.