Mark Zuckerberg: "I get that some people, especially teens, may feel self-conscious about posting content that doesn't get enough likes. I'm not sure if the tests showed this was actually helpful at all for those use cases, but that's not really relevant to my own use."

"I get that some people, especially teens, may feel self-conscious about posting content that doesn't get enough likes. I'm not sure if the tests showed this was actually helpful at all for those use cases, but that's not really relevant to my own use... In the realm of intermediate steps, one more thing we may want to consider is publishing the research now and trying to correct the misperception that this change has any impact on well-being. If this had the tenor of us simply evaluating a product change rather than addressing a social issue -- and, to be clear, the former is what we're doing -- then we might feel more flexibility in exploring different outcomes here."