Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s boss, had a ”crazy idea” in 2022 for Facebook — purge all users’ friends.
This came to light on Monday after the US government put Zuckerberg on the witness stand as it faced off against Meta in a landmark antitrust trial that could result in the breakup of the social media empire.
In an internal 2022 email to the social network’s top brass, Zuckerberg — fearful that Facebook was losing cultural relevance — proposed his big idea.
”Option 1. Double down on Friending,” Zuckerberg wrote in the message that the government revealed during his testimony. ”One potentially crazy idea is to consider wiping everyone’s graphs and having them start again.”
Källa: Zuckerberg had a ’crazy idea’ to boost Facebook’s relevance: Make everyone start from scratch