Is it going too far to call Mark Zuckerberg a psychopath?
Psychopathy is a mental disorder whereby sufferers have a clear perception of reality, but lack empathy or social and moral obligations, which can lead to these people developing criminal tendencies withoutfeeling any sense of guilt.
Thanks to the release of internal communications between Meta executives as part of lawsuits brought by several US states against the company, we know that the founder and majority shareholder, Mark Zuckerberg, repeatedly refused and personally rejected proposals to protect the mental health of young people.
In short, despite significant evidence of mental health problems in adolescents as a result of using some features of the company’s products that prompted several executives to call for their removal due to their understandable, logical and reasonable feeling of guilt arising from their effects on the well-being of users. Zuckerberg’s response? To repeatedly and systematically insist those features remain in place. Why? Because he was focused solely on making money and has no empathy or sense of guilt.
That’s pretty much a textbook definition of psychopathy: a disregard for any social or moral obligations related to one’s actions. It is not just about the money, but having no qualms if that is done by harming the welfare of Meta’s users.
