A former executive of Facebook said he feels “tremendous guilt” over the creation of the website – adding “we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works”.
Chamath Palihapitiya, former vice president for user growth, said social media was leaving users “vacant and empty”.
Facebook is "destroying how society works" – that's the view of a former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, who worked at the company six years ago. pic.twitter.com/GVNIaRtC7E
He was speaking at a Stanford Graduate School of Business event and urged people to take a “hard break from some of these tools”.
The 41-year-old added: “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem – this is not about Russians ads. This is a global problem.”
So today we ask, do you think Facebook has changed society for the better or the worse?
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