So i posted concerning the detrimental sentiment on Meta, and needed to present some conclusions and clear up different issues.
So most individuals hate Meta/FB/Zuckerberg for a number of of those causes:
“They offered/promote your data, Cambridge Analytica”.
“They tampered with elections/misinformation”
“There are loopy individuals on FB/FB teams”
“Zuckerber is bizarre/lizard meme”
So lets see how legitimate are these causes:
Cambridge Analytica/Promoting data: FB didn’t promote the knowledge, a knowledge scientist kind Cambridge created a FB app, customers gave this app permission to entry the info, now this app abused the Facebooks API to collect information from its customers associates, now this scientist sells this information to Cambridge Analytica in a breach of FB phrases, after FB advised CA to delete this information and CA promised to do it however did not.
So FB fucked up in permitting entry to consumer’s associates information by its API, that is it, they didn’t promote it, and what’s this oh so non-public and delicate information that may break an individual if somebody might entry it: “public profile, web page likes, birthday and present metropolis”, that is actually a disaster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FacebookpercentE2percent80percent93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal
Elections/misinformation: mainly the algorithm was recommending misinformation to individuals, so in an ideal world this could not occur however why is that this totally different than every other misinformation video advisable on YouTube, or submit in Reddit, basically persons are saying we’re too dumb please FB inform us what is correct and incorrect, so in case you are so mad at FB due to this you also needs to be mad at YouTube, TikTok, Twitter and Reddit for additionally permitting this on their platform.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_content_management_controversies
Loopy individuals: Its the web there may be loopy individuals in all places.
Zuckerber: Okay the dude is awkward, so.. you hate him, okay I suppose.
In conclusion, this hate is just not actually based mostly on details simply conspiracy theories and exaggerations, but when sufficient individuals imagine one thing then turns into “true”.
