In tech, you can always sunset a feature or update some code. But in politics, there is no undo button for failures that change public perception. The tech elites’ decision to visibly align their businesses with a temporary movement has left them no credible way to pivot now that the climate has changed. As one Meta employee who has worked closely with Zuckerberg put it, “Mark is a long-term thinker, but he never charts a plan of how to get there. It’s spray and pray and see what happens.” As for whether employees expect the company to do a strategic postmortem? “Facebook has never really done that.”