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> People really want Meta to fail because the "metaverse" is one of the dumbest pivots of an established company of all time. No, people want Meta/Facebook to
by TwoNineA 4y ago
> People really want Meta to fail because the "metaverse" is one of the dumbest pivots of an established company of all time.
No, people want Meta/Facebook to fail because frankly, they are evil.
- Instagram is toxic to young girls: https://childmind.org/blog/instagram-is-harmful-to-teenage-self-esteem/ https://childmind.org/blog/instagram-is-harmful-to-teenage-s...
- Misinformation: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=facebook+misinformation https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=facebook+misinformation
- How many people died because of Covid conspiracy theories they read on Facebook?
- colinmhayes 4y agoMeta literally facilitated genocide in Myanmar as well as sex slavery by failing to properly screen ads and in some cases didn't even have anybody who could read the language they were in.
- jimlongton 4y agoAlso psychologically experimenting on their users intentionally making them unhappy [1], knowingly facilitating terrorism [2] and enabling race based advertising which blocked black people accessing housing [3]. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/07/10/facebook-experiments-on-users/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/07/10/facebook... [2] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/a-look-at-boz-bosworth-ugly-facebook-memo/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/a-look-at-bo... [3] https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-racial-ad-targeting-multicultural-affinity-updates-criticism-1528877 https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-racial-ad-targeting-multic...