Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg made a startling admission on Wednesday during a private Zoom call for the 11,000 workers his company had just laid off: They were losing their jobs partly because he overestimated the staying power of the pandemic’s e-commerce boom.
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Facebook thought pandemic online shopping would last forever. It didn’t.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg blames shoppers returning to stores in part for Meta’s economic woes
By Naomi Nix
and November 10, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EST