As a billionaire yet to turn 40, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s should be felling peachy about life. But if you tuned into The Joe Rogan Experience podcast last month, where Zuckerberg made a rare appearance to talk about the future of his social-media company (now rebranded as Meta), you’d be forgiven for thinking that having vast power and wealth isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
“You wake up in the morning, look at [your] phone, you get like a million messages, right, of stuff that comes in. It’s usually not good,” he complained to Rogan, the comedian known for his sprawling interviews with celebrities and his humouring of Covid-19 conspiracy theorists.
“It’s almost like every day you wake up and you’re, like, punched in the stomach,” Zuckerberg continued in the most telling section of a surprisingly flat interview that spanned almost three hours.
Meta faces constant criticism for its failure to adequately moderate the messages and videos posted by its billions of users, an issue brought close to home to us in 2019 when the Christchurch mosque shooter streamed his murderous rampage via Facebook.
Meta is also the subject of numerous antitrust court cases in the US and Europe and is feeling the heat from emerging competitors such as
