{"id":20633,"date":"2018-11-01T07:24:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20633"},"modified":"2018-11-01T07:24:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:24:19","slug":"facebook-is-at-a-crossroads-did-mark-zuckerberg-bet-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20633","title":{"rendered":"Facebook is at a crossroads. Did Mark Zuckerberg bet right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>Facebook&#8217;s growth is stalling. It&#8217;s spending billions of dollars and dedicating most of its resources to fix the problem, but Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won&#8217;t right the ship for quite some time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The company is gambling its future on Stories, which is growing in popularity but isn&#8217;t early as lucrative as Facebook&#8217;s News Feed. Facebook is also betting on its engineers&#8217; ability to rid the platform of disinformation campaigns, abuse and hate speech.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Meanwhile, Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=FB\">FB<\/a>) is exhibiting all of the signs of a company in transition, and the new normal for Facebook isn&#8217;t pretty. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/30\/tech\/facebook-earnings\/index.html\">Sales were up 33% last quarter<\/a> &#8212; the worst performance in six years. Profit grew only 9%, worst in more than three years.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)Facebook&#8217;s growth is stalling. It&#8217;s spending billions of dollars and dedicating most of its resources to fix the problem, but Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won&#8217;t right the ship for quite some time.The company is gambling its future on Stories, which is growing in popularity but isn&#8217;t early as lucrative as Facebook&#8217;s News&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}