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Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook
The two co-founders of Facebook Inc.'s popular Instagram app are stepping down, a move marking continued tumult at the social-networking giant.
The co-founders—Kevin Systrom, Instagram's chief executive, and Mike Krieger, chief technology officer—clashed with Facebook executives over the extent of Instagram's autonomy in recent months, according to people familiar with the matter. Earlier this year, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg shifted a senior Facebook executive, Adam Mosseri, over to Instagram in anticipation that the founders might leave, one of the people said.
Among other things, Facebook officials, including Mr. Zuckerberg, clashed with the co-founders over growth tactics and how to more rapidly expand the photo-sharing app's user base, another person said. Senior Facebook officials had known the two men were frustrated working within a large company and had begun making preparations for them to leave, another person familiar with the matter said.
Also at NYT, The Atlantic, and Gizmodo.
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(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday September 27 2018, @12:50PM (1 child)
When used in the singular form, "they" does refer to a single object and not a group of objects, a bit like how the gender-neutral form of "he" does refer to someone of an unspecified gender and not necessarily a male. The reason the singular "they" is better is because you can almost always distinguish it from the plural "they" just by looking at the verb. Conversely, there is often no evidence presented in a sentence to distinguish between the masculine "he" and the gender-neutral "he".
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @03:43PM
There is just feminine "she". Everything else is merely non-feminine; there's the definite feminine, and then there is everything else, which depends on context—a special place is given solely to the feminine.
Your singular they is a failure of the mind [soylentnews.org].