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Zuckerberg's and Sandberg's response to all these events has been the weakest and lamest that I have ever seen from any leadership, regarding controversial issues that involve a company of this size...and that's hard to beat when you have the likes of BP and Volkswagen... Do they really think that just ignoring the issue will make the problem go away?

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This problem may be both existential and intractable for Facebook to solve, which is why they have been giving it the silent treatment. I believe the operators and investors are just now realizing how damaging the business model was for consumers.

When have they really ever had their feet held to a fire on a controversial issue? Zuckerberg is still a pretty young guy, despite his position and all he's done he's still inexperienced in some things. Ever since he started Facebook things have pretty much gone his way. Maybe he just doesn't instinctively know what to do.

In which case he knows exactly what to do, which is shut up. There's nothing he can say right now that will make things better.

My guess is he's been cognizant of the magnitude of this disaster all along.

This is why he had been getting his picture taken driving tractors. It was an act of image management, not because he planned to run for office.

Pretty sure it's just the lawyers telling him that.

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