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The new new Mark Zuckerberg

Good morning! This Monday, Zuck has a new attitude, Meng Wanzhou was released from being detained after three years, and Elon Musk thinks the chip shortage is a "short-term" problem.
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Mark Zuckerberg has tried many approaches to life as a public figure. He's tried to be relatable, meeting people all over America as if he were running for president. He's been apologetic, contrite, visionary, apologetic again, and seemingly everything he can think of to seem more human than robotic.
Now, Zuckerberg seems to just be … over it. After years of trying to be liked, and then trying to be understood, he's embraced just doing what he wants.
Zuckerberg's change is a deliberate one. A Facebook initiative called Project Amplify has reportedly sought to distance Zuckerberg from Facebook's scandals, the Times reported, many of which involve decisions that Zuckerberg himself made.
It's not quite an Elon Musk-level heel turn, though. He's not picking fights with regulators or rivals, he's not promoting joke cryptocurrencies, and if he's subtly auditioning to host "SNL," well, it's maybe a bit too subtle.
This approach will always earn both fans and critics, and Zuckerberg obviously has plenty of both. Whether it's a maintainable strategy in the long run, of course, is an entirely different question.
But honestly, it's surprising we don't see more of this. It may require a thick skin and a near-endless supply of cool announcements and funny diversions, but this approach has given Musk something like carte blanche to do and say whatever he wants because he's always a step ahead of the repercussions. Zuckerberg won't be the last to learn from that.
By scrutinizing facts and including all voices, we can achieve public consensus faster and take well-informed collective action against the many challenges our world is facing. Embracing facts, new technologies, and science is our shared responsibility and the least we can do to drive positive change for the world.
Facebook head of research Pratiti Raychoudhury disputed the WSJ's story about Facebook knowing Instagram is harmful for teen girls:
Elon Musk thinks the chip shortage won't last much longer:
A few former Justice Department antitrust chiefs are rooting for Jonathan Kanter:
Europe will get more influence through the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council, European Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis thinks:
Code 2021 begins today. There are some big-name speakers this year, including Elon Musk, Gary Gensler and Marc Benioff.
Amazon's fall hardware event is tomorrow. There aren't a lot of details about it really, except that it'll cover the company's latest "devices, features and services."
Amazon's New World drops tomorrow. The video game's release has been delayed a few times since last year, and everyone's hoping the company will finally get a game right.
DevOps World 2021 starts tomorrow. Steve Wozniak is the keynote speaker of this year's software delivery conference.
The first U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council meeting takes place Wednesday. Top officials will meet in Pittsburgh.
Facebook's Antigone Davis will testify before the Senate on Thursday. The hearing is called "Protecting Kids Online: Facebook, Instagram, and Mental Health Harms."
For more upcoming events, check out Protocol's tech calendar.
Some meetings can be an email. But sometimes an email makes more sense if you can share your screen. That's where Slack's new feature, called clips, comes in.
Clips allows you to record video messages, which can be sent in either public or private Slack channels or through DMs. Videos can be sent with screen recordings and they include live captions and searchable transcripts. Once your video message is sent, your co-worker can reply however they'd like: text, audio, a video message or an emoji. Great, yet another option to choose from!
By scrutinizing facts and including all voices, we can achieve public consensus faster and take well-informed collective action against the many challenges our world is facing. Embracing facts, new technologies, and science is our shared responsibility and the least we can do to drive positive change for the world.
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