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Facebook's Lack of Humanity: Charts

Facebook's Lack of Humanity: Charts

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Facebook's Lack of Humanity: Charts
Facebook's Lack of Humanity: Charts
Facebook's Lack of Humanity: Charts
Facebook's Lack of Humanity: Charts

And don't miss Shira Ovide on Amazon's fondness for obfuscation: "Amazon's method of keeping its financial secrets is particularly insidious because it is thriftiness with the patina of transparency.  In Bezos's letter, for example, a nearly 2,500-word section devoted to Amazon's 2017 milestones included more than 70 numbers or non-numerical bragging points about the company's business. By my subjective count, the only figure that was meaningful and not previously disclosed was the Prime member number. The other 72 were either fluff, presented without important context or impossible to corroborate." 

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Max Nisen is a Bloomberg Gadfly columnist covering biotech, pharma and health care. He previously wrote about management and corporate strategy for Quartz and Business Insider.

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