Facebook Engineering Disasters Are Not Inevitable: Moving Past Casual Commentary to Real Change

In the wake of Facebook’s massive 2021 outage, a concerning pattern emerged in public commentary: the tendency to trivialize engineering disasters through casual metaphors and resigned acceptance. When Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain likened the incident to “locking keys in a car” and others described it as an “accidental suicide,” they fundamentally mischaracterized the nature … Continue reading Facebook Engineering Disasters Are Not Inevitable: Moving Past Casual Commentary to Real Change →