Success Quote by Mark Zuckerberg

Power, in Zuckerberg's hands, is always framed as a gift. The line performs a neat rhetorical trick: it recasts Facebook's business model as a civic project, with the platform as neutral infrastructure and "the system" as an almost self-correcting democracy machine. The word "usually" is doing quiet but crucial work here, preemptively sanding down the obvious counterexamples without conceding much. It's an optimism clause you can cite later.

The intent is reputational as much as philosophical. By defining Facebook's role as "giving people that power", Zuckerberg positions the company as an enabler rather than an editor, a posture that has long insulated platforms from responsibility for what spreads through them. If users have voices, then outcomes - good or bad - can be treated as emergent properties of society, not the result of product decisions, ranking algorithms, or incentive structures.

The subtext is that power can be distributed without being governed. That sounds liberating until you remember that Facebook decides what "voice" looks like: who gets amplified, who gets throttled, what counts as engagement, and which communities get protected. "Give everyone a voice" also smuggles in an equality claim that the platform's architecture undercuts; a megaphone doesn't land evenly when attention is scarce and outrage is profitable.

Context matters: this is the language of the mid-2010s tech industry, when "empowerment" doubled as a moral alibi. It echoes a Silicon Valley faith that connectivity is inherently pro-social, a belief that aged poorly in the face of disinformation, harassment, and political manipulation. The line is less a promise than a branding strategy: power as a product feature, democracy as a user experience.