As the problem yesterday showed, Facebook is a monopoly.
Entire countries were left without means to communicate.
Some employees couldn’t even get through their “smart doors”.
Too many functions, too much power concentrated into one business and one person.
In addition, it is our century’s tobacco in terms of nocivity (causing addiction and health issues) while pretending to do good. (Tobacco was supposed to be good if you had a cough, it was supposed to give you strength and was thus liberally given to WW1 and WW2 soldiers…)
If it is purposely then something can be done about it: tweak the algorithms. They know -these effects aren’t new- and they don’t.
If they have no clue about it, then it cannot continue as is.
They should also provide data to researchers rather than shut them down, as they did to the NYU team.
Is there truly someone who thinks FB has no idea what it’s doing to people?
(I didn’t follow the interview etc. But this is just further proof of now oft-studied phenomena.)
Let’s see if our generation can do better than the previous ones against a toxic monopoly.