Facebook is Evil

Is Facebook, or its parent company Meta the most evil corporation in the world? Maybe not. The cigarette companies or the arms dealers may be more harmful.

But I think it is safe to say that it is the most pernicious software company in the world, led by the most evil CEO in the short history of computer software.

When I started my career in Computer Software in the 90’s, computers were still a novelty and people who worked with computers were treated with respect as scientists and pioneers. Those days are gone. Computers are now a household appliance used by even grandmothers. People tend to treat computers with annoyance and suspicion lest they will be cheated by some scammer and hacker. But still it was not hated as evil until Mr. Zuckerberg brought it down to dust with his rapacity and arrogance. To be fair, he is not alone. But he is by far the face of evil in large tech companies.

You know you have hit the rock bottom when a corrupt, shady, unsavoury organisation like the Australian Government sues you for cheating. That Mark Zuckerberg is a greedy, arrogant entitled person was clear from his student days. Here is a glimpse on how he treats his target customers. He thought they are Dumb fucks. Now you may say he was just 19 year old. He did not know. But he did not change even when he grew up. In 2005 he tried to fool the world by donating all his wealth to a foundation, which is completely owned by him. I could not find much info about the charity activities of that foundation. Maybe some pittance was given, but that is negligible and also for questionable purposes. Who is he trying to fool? His customers I guess.

Facebook spreads hate that is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people around the world. A little investment to moderate those content could save hundreds of lives. But Facebook spends almost negligible amounts for monitoring fake news and hateful content. Here is a small list.

Recently a whistleblower named Frances Haugen revealed how facebook misled inventors and pushed hateful contents for profit.

Facebook spread hateful content that led to riots and killings of Hindu minorities in Bangladesh

Facebook helped spread the genocide against the Rohingyas in Myanmar.

Meta has helped the US Government to wage their illegal wars and help spread their propaganda. Again these wars kills thousands of people all over the world

Recently Meta promoted violence against the Russians during the Ukraine war. Obviously they don't care about Ukraine. They are just doing this to appease the US government and to make more money by pushing violence.

This is just a tiny sample. If someone collects all such incidents, it will be 100 times this list.

The sad part, most of this damage could have been contained by a little less greed, by spending a tiny amount of money moderating contents. But Mark would not not even spend a few millions to protect his customers, while he keeps his hundreds of billions. Why should he? We are just “dumb fucks”, expendible.

He sells our private data to anyone who pays, without any scrupule. This data is then used mostly for harmful purposes like rigging elections, influential public opinion etc.

The US Congress did the sham investigation and hearing of all tech companies, including Meta. It was obvious during their testimony how they are compromising privacy, security and well being of their users. But they did absolutely nothing. Money can buy silence from anyone.

Then there are other more damaging effects of Facebook. From loss of time, productivity, social life, to loss of concentration, anxiety depression and sucide from using the harmful products that Mr. Zuckerberg promotes. And Meta does not spend any money to contain the damaging effects of these products. I have not seen any large scale study funded by them to study the bad effects of constant exposure to social networks or any publicity campaign to educate the users, particularly children. Even cigarette companies fund cancer research. But not Mark. To him, his customers are “dumb fucks”, to be scarificed on the alter of his greed for billions.

And he is right. We are “dumb fucks”. We keep using his products, harm ourselves and make him rich. Technology is everywhere these days. We cannot live without them. But surely we can choose which technologies are useful to us and which are harmful.

I stopped using Facebook a long time ago. Never used Instagram. I still use WhatsApp, grudgingly, because it is difficult to live without in India. But I am cutting down. Every time I send a message, the ugly face of Mark Zuckerberg flashes in front of my eyes and I think how he is profiting by selling my privacy. And I stop.

I hope others will also stop, soon.

Note: Most of these information is collected from the internet. I do not have the training or the capacity to fact check them. But they are from renowned brands. I have reasonable confidence that they are correct. Please feel free to correct any inaccuracy.