Bhaskar Chakravorti in The San Francisco Chronicle – “Facebook’s ‘pivot’ is less about privacy and more about profits”

Facebook’s ‘pivot’ is less about privacy and more about profits

Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s latest promise is that his social media conglomerate will become a “privacy-focused” one. By turns lauded and lambasted, this move does not quite address users’ primary problems with the company. His move is the pragmatic shift of a CEO toward where the market is already headed. Ironically, Zuckerberg’s announcement provides more evidence for Facebook critics who say the company doesn’t understand even the concept of user privacy.

Read the full piece from Dean Chakravorti in as it appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle