Yeah Zuckerbergs a victim. Dude couldn’t pull a** in college so sets up a way using some basic tech to jerk off to pictures of girls in college and is now worth whatever but he’s the one we should feel for…
Mark Zuckerberg Tells Joe Rogan Waking Up in the Morning Is Like Getting ‘Punched in the Stomach’
Meta Platforms CEO spoke in a nearly three-hour interview on Joe Rogan’s show on a range of issues
By Allison PrangFollow
and Ginger Adams OtisFollow
Updated Aug. 26, 2022 5:52 pm ET
“You wake up in the morning, look at my phone, you get like a million messages, right, of stuff that come in. It’s usually not good,” Mr. Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in an episode on his show, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” that aired Thursday.
“It’s almost like every day you wake up and you’re, like, punched in the stomach,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. “Now I need to, like, go reset myself and be able to kind of be productive and not be stressed about this.”
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After processing the information he’s given, he said he spends an hour or two doing physical activity such as surfing or mixed martial arts.
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During Mr. Zuckerberg’s nearly three-hour interview with Mr. Rogan on his Spotify Technology SA show, the Facebook founder gave his perspective on a range of issues, including giving priority to physical activity, comparing Instagram to rival Twitter Inc. and planning for his future. Mr. Rogan has interviewed other business people, including Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk, who appeared to smoke weed during the show’s recording in 2018.
Joe Rogan in July. Photo: Carmen Mandato/Getty Images
Mr. Zuckerberg is trying to revamp almost every aspect of the social-media platform’s operations. The company last month reported its first-ever quarter of declining revenue and is facing steep competition from TikTok and others.
Mr. Zuckerberg spoke about his company’s social responsibility in managing a platform with billions of users.
“I view our job as empowering people to be able to express what they want and get the content that they want,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. “And whenever we try to exert some kind of opinion that’s different from what people want, our products do worse, and we exist in a very competitive space.”
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He also compared the experience on his Instagram platform to Twitter.
“The plus side of [Twitter] is that you get all of these people who are super witty and are saying super insightful things, but a lot of them are very cutting,” Mr. Zuckerberg said. “I find that it’s hard to spend a lot of time on Twitter without getting too upset. On the flip side, I think Instagram is a super positive space.”
A Wall Street Journal investigation last year showed that Meta Platforms’ own researchers found Instagram is harmful for many young users, especially teenage girls. The head of Instagram at the time said he thought some of the issues involved weren’t widespread, but their impact on people could be big.
Twitter didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Mr. Rogan also pressed for details on Facebook’s decision to restrict New York Post reporting ahead of the 2020 presidential election based on what the newspaper said were emails sent from or received by Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.
Mr. Zuckerberg defended Facebook’s vetting while acknowledging it is a flawed process. He said there was concern that the story fit the pattern of content the Federal Bureau of Investigation had warned about, although the FBI didn’t specifically caution about the Biden story.
“The FBI came to us—some folks on our team—and was like, ‘Hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert,’” Mr. Zuckerberg said. “The fact checkers looked into it and no one was able to say it was false,” he said of the Biden story.
“I don’t know if the answer would have been, don’t do anything or don’t have any process,” he added. “I think the process was pretty reasonable…but obviously you don’t want situations like that.”
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Mr. Zuckerberg also said he sometimes struggles with the onslaught of negative feedback he gets from social media.
“You don’t want to be so closed that you’re not listening to criticism because then you’re not going to grow,” he said. “But I think finding people and outlets that will provide criticism, but from a place of actually trying to help you grow rather than tear you down, is very rare.”
Despite the pressure, Mr. Zuckerberg, 38, said he doesn’t plan to retire soon. He has specific professional and personal goals he hopes to achieve over the next 10 to 15 years, he said.
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For work, he’s focused on advancing social media beyond mobile phones and defining what the next computing platform will be. Facebook last year changed its corporate name to Meta Platforms to reflect its desire to reposition itself around the metaverse, or shared online spaces inhabited by digital avatars.
On the personal side, he said he’s enjoying working on his ranch with his family, trying to make it 100% sustainable.
He said he loves working with his wife, Priscilla Chan, who he described as “absolutely brilliant.” They co-founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and have pledged to give away 99% of their wealth over their lifetimes through the family fund in areas such as education and healthcare.
“The long term goal is to basically create tools for the scientific community to enable them to either be able to cure, prevent or manage all diseases within this century,” he told Mr. Rogan. “And I think that’s possible.”
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Why does, in part, inflation happen, Pete?
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