Mark Zuckerberg’s vision for bringing the world together

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks Facebook can help save the world, and he wrote almost 6,000 words on Thursday explaining how. His letter, which we’ve dubbed The Mark Manifesto, offers a glimpse into Zuckerberg’s global aspirations. Here it is in full.

Also: The basics from Mark’s letter, his conversation with Kara Swisher about it and the Facebook products that could help save the world.

It was pretty clear once I got on the phone last night with Mark Zuckerberg that he has become of late very, how shall we put it, woke.

“No one single event triggered this,” said the Facebook CEO and co-founder in an interview, noting the heightening of ugly political discourse in the U.S. under President Donald J. Trump was not the impetus for a nearly 6,000-word opus on his world view for the social giant’s future that he released today. “I have been thinking about these things for a long time ... my views have just become more nuanced.”

Mark Zuckerberg posted nearly 6,000 words today outlining his vision for Facebook’s future, which includes a lot of ways he thinks Facebook can help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems.

The post is much more general than it is specific. Zuckerberg focused on the big issues he wants to address — things like increasing voter turnout worldwide and preventing terrorist attacks — not necessarily the actual products he’ll use to fix them.

Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has connected friends and families across the globe — now he wants to connect, well, everything in a bid to make the world a better place.

That is the 60,000-foot takeaway from a nearly 6,000-word manifesto Zuckerberg published to his Facebook page Thursday. It is an ambitious, wide-ranging, well-intentioned and sometimes naïve declaration, meant to shed light on the giant social network’s next aspirations, extending its next moves far beyond photo albums and celebrity livestreams.