Meta and its employees absolutely, fundamentally believe that everyone else is very, very stupid. This has been a core theme of how they’ve functioned since the start.
Meta says “a bug” caused them to rapidly, throughout the entire Meta network, block every website that contained a link to an article about their suppression of climate change ads and posts.
That’s one hell of a specific bug.
If 99% of your day is spent watching millions of people share “proof” Antifa Zionist Mexican Transgender Abortion Doctors cause earthquakes and eclipses, you’d think humanity was generally stupid, too.
“If you built a big evil machine designed to more efficiently lie to people trapped inside, when inconvenient observers point out the machines flaws the people designing & maintaining the machine will repeat the lie that everything is great & be surprised that anyone can see through it” idk
They're not entirely wrong, though.
As George Carlin quipped: "think of how stupid the average person is, amd then realize half of them are stupider than that."
It's a weird arrogance of assuming their particular skills make them the smartest people in the world. Like assuming you know how to code or get VC money also means you should have a say in how everything else in society works rather than understanding those as niche skills.
I would say leadership, not employees. There’s a hopeful naivety among employees. Rank and file engineers in my experience really wanted to make a positive impact, but I don’t think many understand the profit incentives can never allow for that.
In their defense? In my experience that place is a garbage fire and nothing actually makes sense at all and they regularly flag shit from advertisers that was pre-approved by their content teams. Idk if someone flagged the domain on purpose or not.
Watching their "metaverse" stumble through every social problem that afflicted 2nd Life and MMORPGs continues to be hilarious.
Their "not invented here" mentality is a critical flaw in their corporate culture that I have to assume comes directly from the founder.
I have an acquaintance who works for fb and even with the massive layoffs she absolutely guzzled the koolaid. Tbh I'll never trust someone who works for the fb conglomerate
Can we really blame Meta? The media reports on things like they are the main character in Momento unable to form new memories.
Zuckerberg to Congress: We're taking steps to fix this issue, it was totally a one off accident.
The media: Dutifully stenographing every word uncritically.
