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Mossfern

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2. The Atlantic had a very gripping article about this
Thu Feb 15, 2024, 06:18 PM
Feb 2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/

I don't know if there's a paywall.

Technology
The Rise of Techno-authoritarianism

Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.
By Adrienne LaFrance

Facebook (now Meta) has become an avatar of all that is wrong with Silicon Valley. Its self-interested role in spreading global disinformation is an ongoing crisis. Recall, too, the company’s secret mood-manipulation experiment in 2012, which deliberately tinkered with what users saw in their News Feed in order to measure how Facebook could influence people’s emotional states without their knowledge. Or its participation in inciting genocide in Myanmar in 2017. Or its use as a clubhouse for planning and executing the January 6, 2021, insurrection. (In Facebook’s early days, Zuckerberg listed “revolutions” among his interests. This was around the time that he had a business card printed with I’M CEO, BITCH.)[

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