It’s Time to Reframe Our Relationship With Facebook

If Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg are hunkered down this week strategizing how to handle a devastating cascade of bad press, you can understand why. Wednesday's in-depth New York Times storydocuments how Facebook has consistently taken a “delay, deny and deflect” approach to addressing its critics—rather than, you know, fixing Facebook's real problems. A raft of other negative stories have followed, most picking up on selected details from the Times story, of which the most absurd include the attempt to blame criticism of Facebook on George Soros and Zuckerberg's reported insistence, after Apple CEO Tim Cook criticized social media companies, that top execs abandon their iPhones.