The real reason why Facebook and Google won’t change, By Shoshana Zuboff Fast Company, on 02.22.19
▻https://www.fastcompany.com/90303274/why-facebook-and-google-wont-change
Zuckerberg, Sandberg, and the company’s other top executives are not radically indifferent because they’re evil but because they’re surveillance capitalists, bound by unprecedented economic imperatives to extract behavioral data in order to predict our futures for others’ gain.
“We connect people,” [Andrew Bosworth] wrote. “Maybe someone finds love . . . Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools. The ugly truth is that . . . anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good.”