The careless people who made Facebook
Former employee tells how good people can end up working themselves to the bone for bad people doing bad things
17 April 2025 - 05:00
The gig has been up for Meta and Mark Zuckerberg for years — at the very least since Frances Haugen blew the whistle in 2021, proving that Zuckerberg and his senior executives had long been aware of the harm their products inflicted on society.
But we’ve known for much longer that Facebook, as it used to be, was symptomatic of and encouraged the worst kind of contemporary capitalism.; that it was the consummate example of what type of people should not be running the most influential companies in the world...
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