Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s committed to turning his company around. Onstage at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, the chief executive says that privacy will be the defining pillar of his social network’s sprawling empire going forward.
His opening statements build on the massive shift in Zuckerberg’s vision for the company that he first outlined early last month when he announced Facebook would transition away from the News Feed and public posts and toward a “privacy-focused communications platform” that unified its messaging products around concepts like ephemerality and encryption.
“The future is private,” Zuckerberg told the crowd, noting that Facebook’s most dominant vision over the last decade was to build global...