Quote of the day by Mark Zuckerberg: “A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than…” – what it really reveals about life online

It is one of the most jarring things a technology leader has ever said, and read quickly, it sounds shockingly cold. A squirrel dying in your front yard, Mark Zuckerberg told colleagues, may matter more to you right now than people dying in Africa. Taken at face value, it seems heartless. But Zuckerberg was not making a claim about which lives are worth more. He was explaining how human attention works, and how the websites we use every day decide what to put in front of us. Understood properly, the quote is less a callous remark and more a window into the hidden machinery that shapes what billions of people see online.

Quote of the day by Mark Zuckerberg