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This is all, at least in part, the price Facebook has already paid for its bad reputation.

Let me get back to Instagram because it helps illustrate the weight of Facebook’s luggage.

almost that minute the news is broken “NO!” on Facebook’s plans for an app release for preteens this year. There were screams. from the attorney generals and some child advocates. Facebook now says it will hear the critics.

Instagram Kids isn’t necessarily a bad idea. US law Requires limitations on online accounts of children under 13, but many lie about their age. Facebook was partly trying to accept the truth and lure young people into a more protected version of Instagram. Facebook pointed It adapted both its YouTube and TikTok apps for kids on Monday. (And they have received criticism from time to time.) All this complicated for parents, regulators, internet companies and children.

The biggest problem was that Instagram Kids came from Facebook, which people didn’t trust to create a safe space for kids. Many don’t trust the company, period. This was at least the second high-profile product Facebook took a step back after backlash. Last year on Facebook changed his mind about launching his own virtual currency, called Libra, after him business partners blocked and some US government officials worried about possible disruptions in the financial system.

If a more trusted company like General Motors, or even Apple, were behind Libra or an app for kids, there might still be a backlash to these proposals. But US senators may not have criticized the company’s work using a profanity or likened to a little arsonist, as they do on Facebook.

While many people say they don’t like Facebook, I know it feels like they’re using the social network or one of its other apps. There are weak spots in Facebook’s popularity, but this may be the result of Americans feeling they have to hold their nose when logging in.

The number of people using Facebook or the Messenger app at least once a month in the US and Canada has increased by only 8 percent since the end of 2017. Cambridge Analytica scandal Regarding the collection of users’ information, Facebook’s lax treatment of personal data has emerged.

Facebook may now have maxed out as two-thirds of the total population of the US and Canada use the social media network. These numbers do not include people using Instagram or WhatsApp from the same company. Facebook doesn’t regularly release numbers for these apps.

You can look at these facts and come to the opposite conclusion: Nothing matters. Facebook wins on the money and power leaderboard.

Yes I hear you. The cynical devil on my shoulder cries out that several projects have been postponed, the politicians are screaming, rejection from job candidates Armies of public relations professionals and lawyers are just the cost of doing business for a high-profile company.

Maybe Facebook can leave insecurity behind forever and stay hated but rich. However, I wonder if at some point the burden of a bad reputation is too much and starts to hurt Facebook where it matters – in his wallet. Or maybe I just wish it was true because companies shouldn’t be messing things up over and over and face few consequences.

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I Wrote Last week, we could all be better off if Facebook pulled out of less affluent countries. The company has repeatedly failed to allocate enough money, attention, and cultural competence to many countries outside the United States and Western Europe, resulting in horrific human damage, including ethnic violence and government harassment of citizens.

Antoniya Staneva, a reader of On Tech in Sofia, Bulgaria, disagreed with me and made great points. I wanted to share a slightly edited part of the email for clarity:

Yes, a trivial country (Bulgaria) where Facebook is a tool for misinformation, manipulation, propaganda and other dangerous practices (not even the US when you think about it?) Where it wasn’t, these things would happen. They happen at the local level through (social) media channels and networks.

However, the big difference for people in such countries will be that they will lose an important window into the larger world; this is what Facebook often happens in smaller, non-Western, not very developed countries.

Before you go …

• Meet Amazon’s latest invention: called astro, and, essentially, a $1,000 Alexa display on wheels with a googly eye.

• More Amazon! The company has often failed to create a hit video game for die-hard gamers for years. One executive told my colleague Kellen Browning: Amazon’s newest release “must be our groundbreaking game – there’s no doubt about it”

  Relating to: Video game company Activision Blizzard agreed to pay $18 million in an agreement with a federal employment agency. The agency accused Activision of discriminating against pregnant employees, paying female workers less than their male counterparts because of their gender, and retaliating against employees who complain of unfair treatment.

• Happy Meg Ryan cozy sweater season! TikTok had views inspired by the characters of the actress In “You’ve Got Mail”, “When Harry Met Sally” and “Sleepless in Seattle”. This is another twist on our obsession with hating or loving everything fall, Rebecca Jennings of Vox writes.

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