Back in March, Mark Zuckerberg held a meeting with his employees.

He was an hour-long town hall, a chance for people at Metta to ask questions of their

boss.

So, I think it's important to remember the context here.

That's Naomi Nick's who covers social media for The Washington Post.

Mark Zuckerberg had just announced that the company would be doing another round of layoffs

slashing up to 10,000 jobs, and that was just a few months after they had already slashed

11,000 workers.

So employees were understandably anxious, and so was Zuckerberg, according to Naomi's

reporting.

He's getting a lot of questions from employees that are essentially asking him, how can

we trust you?

How can we trust your leadership after multiple rounds of layoffs?

And Mark had a kind of answer, he essentially said, look, that's a fair question.

I completely understand why you're asking that question.

Ultimately, I think the plan that the company has in place to become more efficient and

eventually more successful as a business will make this a better place to work.

What does it tell you about him, or maybe I guess the moment that the company is in,

that he said, yeah, that's a fair question.

It was a pretty remarkable moment, and I talked to employees after that, and they talked

about how they, it feels like a different company than the one that they had joined.

According to Naomi's sources, Zuckerberg didn't sound like the confident version of himself,

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