#267 – Mark Zuckerberg: Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and the Metaverse

I think it's worth grounding this conversation in the actual research that has been done on this which, by and large, finds that social media is not a large driver of polarization.

We're not a Democrat company or a Republican company; we're trying to make the best decisions we can to help people connect...

The real world is a combination of the virtual world and the physical world. But I think, over time, as we get more technology, the physical world is becoming less of a percent of the real world.

A lot of people think that the metaverse is about a place, but one definition of this is it's about a time when, basically, immersive digital worlds become the primary way that we that we live our lives and spend our time.

I sort of have this hiring heuristic at Meta, which is that I will only hire someone to work for me if I could see myself working for them.

I think the most important decision you're probably going to make if you're in college is who you surround yourself with, because you become like the people you surround yourself with.

I think most of the other big tech companies are building technology for you to interact with. What I care about is building technology to help people interact with each other.

Most of the academic studies that I've seen actually show that social media use is correlated with lower polarization.

I think that, at some level, whether 25% of people dislike you or 75% of people dislike you, your experience as a public figure is going to be that there's a lot of people who dislike you.

Part of what I think is going to be great about the creator economy and the metaverse and all this stuff is this notion... that a lot more people in the future are going to get to work doing creative stuff than what I think today we would just consider traditional labor or service.