Yet in his prepared statement to US senators, Mr Zuckerberg skated over the threat to society posed by Facebook’s fastest-growing division: Instagram. And unlike Facebook, Instagram is still growing in the US. Mr Zuckerberg likes to say that any firm which has grown at the speed of his was bound to make mistakes. Instagram, bought for $1bn in 2012 by Mr Zuckerberg, is worth about $100bn. Like Facebook, Instagram employs an army of moderators to check content, though it is Sisyphean work.

Source: The Guardian December 18, 2018 18:33 UTC