From the article: 'One of the biggest puzzles about our current predicament with fake news and the weaponisation of social media is why the folks who built thi

From the article: 'One of the biggest puzzles about our current predicament with fake news and the weaponisation of social media is why the folks who built this technology are so taken aback by what has happened. Exhibit A is the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, whose political education I recently chronicled. But he’s not alone. In fact I’d say he is quite representative of many of the biggest movers and shakers in the tech world. We have a burgeoning genre of “OMG, what have we done?” angst coming from former Facebook and Google employees who have begun to realise that the cool stuff they worked on might have had, well, antisocial consequences.' Perhaps that is true for some of the employees, but for the founders, I'm calling BS. Zuckerberg, Thiel, Parker, Moskovitz, etc. are sharp, well-read guys who knew exactly what they were doing from square-one. They did it anyway. Probably thanks to the fact that in 2017, if you have enough money and you flush one country down the toilet, there's always another one that will welcome you with open arms for the right price. India's elite have been making the same migration to the US for two generations, and Thiel just built a house for himself in NZ.