Mark Zuckerberg once suggested wiped all Facebook friends to enhance use

The CEO of META Mark Zuckerberg had a “crazy idea” in 2022 to make people use more Facebook: delete the lists of everyone’s friends. This possibility was discussed on Monday via the internal emails that FTC showed as Zuckerberg witnessed during Meta anti -monopoly trial.

Zuckerberg put forward the idea of ​​looking at “scanning graphs for all” – their friends’ lists – “and made them start again”, perhaps once a year, Drilling Deputy Editor Alex Heath, who noticed the certificate inside the courtroom. Meta CEO said he was concerned that “the cultural importance of Facebook is decreasing quickly.” Zuckerberg suggested following an overlapping approach, such as starting an experiment in a smaller country, if many people leave Facebook in response to this step. He said: “Even if it is (Instagram) and (WhatsApp) well, I do not see a way to the success of our company the way we need if FB stumbles, so we need to get this correctly.”

The head of Facebook Tom Allison answered, saying that it was not sure that the idea was “applicable due to my understanding of the importance of the state of friends’ use” to Instagram, according to Business Insider. The port says that, in his response, Zuckerberg also asked, “How much work will be to convert personal files into a follow -up form.”

When the lawyer for the Federal Trade Committee reminded Zuckerberg about the idea during the interrogation on Monday, Business Insider He writes that the executive authority answered, “As much as I can say, we have never done so.”

Meta followed a different approach to stimulating the experience of Facebook recently, with the latter Enter the tab of renewed friends This does not offer the algorithm content to users. In January, Zuckerberg said The great focus of the company this year is “returning to some Og Facebook”.