Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg Are Not Political Victims
Mark Zuckerberg whining on Joe Rogan’s podcast is the eye roll of the year already.
Mark Zuckerberg’s recent Trump bootlicking and appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast to do a “woe is me” victim spiel about the Biden Administration criticizing Facebook is an early contender for eye roll of the year.
Mark Zuckerberg, third richest person in the entire world, is upset that Biden Administration officials yelled at Facebook employees during the zenith of a once-in-a-century pandemic for proliferating medical ignorance, deadly disinformation, conspiracy theories, and armed protests at state capitols.
Facebook is the victim of nothing and no one.
The social media platform has stolen all our data, turned us all into exploited products for its advertising profits, and intentionally manipulated our emotions.
Facebook effectively destroyed much of what was great about the old Web 1.0 by sucking like a black hole as much Internet traffic its algorithm could sap out of us as it algorithmically siloed us into disparate echo chambers and radicalized us against each other because it was effective for collecting all our eyeball pennies. Facebook took the most gullible among our citizenry down rabbit holes of delusions and conspiracies, and depressed nearly all of us.
Facebook has profited handsomely from boosting foreign propaganda in our elections paid for in foreign currencies. The platform is used to recruit terrorists and Nazis. It has been used to incite pogroms against ethnic and religious minorities in other countries. No doubt it helped MAGA lunatics connect with each other to plan the violence on January 6th.
On top of Meta contributing immensely to a litany of our society’s social, political, and mental health problems, Meta’s products are terrible now.
I barely see any of my real friends’ posts on Facebook, and the platform’s experience is a stale form of web browsing because, rather than innovate anything or tone down the user exploitation, Meta copies every other platform’s niche trying to be an everything app, but doing it all worse than the niche platforms.
Facebook’s other play is to buy its competitors and suck on their souls, like it did with Instagram squeezing a once vibrant ecosystem of visual arts into a wasteland for Millennial hustle culture addicts and cringey self-promoters still trying to be 2010s influencers. Then Meta made Instragram jump on the micro video bandwagon to become a TikTok knock off.
And whatever Zuckerberg is trying to do with the Metaverse, he’s selling us something no one’s asking for. Who wants to spend MORE time online melting our brains with constant content? Aren’t we miserable enough doomscrolling in two dimensions? Now Meta wants us to have to create and curate a whole new, immersive, 3-dimensional existence? And manage digital lives? And pay for digital real estate when everyone is in basic agreement that our society is going haywire because we’re all too online and inundated with too many people’s opinions about things?
Don’t give Zuckerberg any sympathy. Don’t pretend for a second any of our oligarchs have sympathy for any of us. Zuckerberg is lining up to try and impress Trump to have a chance to beat Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos at becoming the world’s first trillionaire. 🥃
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