More than ever, Facebook is a 'Zuckerberg production'

For years, he was an obsessive CEO in some ways, distant in others. Then the problems became too acute to leave to anyone else

On January 27, at a regularly scheduled Monday morning meeting with top executives at Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg turned the agenda to coronavirus. For weeks, he told his staff, he had been hearing from global health care experts that the virus had the makings of a pandemic, and now Facebook needed to prepare for a worst-case scenario — one in which the company’s ability to combat misinformation, scammers and conspiracy theorists would be tested as never before.

To start, Zuckerberg said, the company should take some of the tools it had developed to fight 2020 election garbage and attempt to retool