Facebook Groups Are Destroying America



In case my opinion on this hasn't been clear enough: Zuckerberg has gone from pioneer to plain and simple pillager of all our critical thinking. He stands for nothing, and thus he lets users fall for anything. I've just watched the series Devs, and it's remarkable: it may be more style than substance but hell, what style! Beautifully made, great sweeping score, superb acting with a feeling of real portent and gravitas. I mention this because a character in it remarks how CEOs of truly disruptive tech often seem to tend to the messianic after time. As their power grows so do they lose their plot ever more spectacularly. But Zuckerberg can't even do that; he loses the plot so ... utterly unspectacularly. Not with a bang but a whimper. He just watches his train derail without even a flicker of emotion and I can't help feeling he'd watch nuclear bombs go off in exactly the same unblinking way. To synopsise: he is the 21st century's greatest tech failure and even its greatest tech danger, and he really pisses me off. I'd love to be banned for this post, but of course I won't. That's kind of the point.

Acknowledgement and thanks to:: Wired | Nina Jankowicz
June 22, 2020