Yep. He’s changing his policy. To something less obvious but just the same. Same bias, but blame the national emergency.
https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-civil-unrest-restriction-policy-1508310
Every single verb in that statement is future progressive tense, which is tech company code for stalling until everyone stops talking about it. Nothing will happen.
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Well that’s an awfully cynical viewpoint…
that I share. Most likely bang on the money, because this is about making money.
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It comes from a career of working in companies like FB (though I haven’t worked there specifically). That language is what managers use with each other as a way of pushing back against red tape and busy work. It’s the polite corporate-speak way of dismissing someone’s request as not being a valuable use of time. Zuckerberg is in such a bubble that he doesn’t understand that black people being murdered in the streets is not the same as trying get out of a meeting next week because you’re tired of making PowerPoint decks. “Oh sure, I’ll look into forming a committee to look into starting an initiative around that. Let’s touch base next week”.
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That’s at least 3 squares on a Corporate Meeting bingo card 
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May change policy?
So Facebook’s current policy is: state sponsored violence towards black people is OK? Voter suppression is OK? Zuck’s dinner buddies like Trump and Bannon are good people?
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To summarise:
- “Review”
- “Review”
- “Review”
- “Work on”
- “Review”
- “Started a workstream”
- “We’re building”
“…and if that doesn’t work I’m going to throw some meringues into the sea, and we’ll see if that’s more effective.”
Headline translation: Zuckerberg once again makes vague promises for things that he’ll never actually do.
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