Facebook co-founder Sean Parker bankrolled Brigade to get out the vote and stimulate civic debate, but after five years and little progress the startup is splitting up, multiple sources confirm to TechCrunch. We’ve learned that Pinterest has acqhired roughly 20 members of the Brigade engineering team. The rest of Brigade is looking for a potential […]
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View More Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is teaming up with ZenefitsFacebook responds to criticism that the network is ‘destroying how society works’
In an unexpected move, Facebook PR just pushed back against criticism after a former executive’s critical words of the company affecting our behavior and society spread this week.
“The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works,” said Chamath Palihapitiya, who joined Facebook in 2007 and served as its vice president for user growth.
The comments were made on Nov. 13 but a video of him speaking at Stanford Graduate School of Business circulated after The Verge shared it on Monday, nearly a month after the event. Read more…
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View More Facebook responds to criticism that the network is ‘destroying how society works’Facebook bats back after a second former exec accuses it of negatively impacting society
Yesterday, The Verge published comments made by investor and former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, quoting his interview last month at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he echoed recent comments made by former Facebook president Sean Parker that the platform is having deleterious effects on society.
Said Palihapitiya at Stanford, “The short-term… Read More
Former Facebook exec says network is ‘destroying how society works’
“You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.”
That was the tagline for The Social Network, the film about creating Facebook, and it’s only become more relevant as the social network has grown to more than 2 billion people. Those “few enemies” are former Facebook executives, people who helped build the tech giant.
“The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works,” said Chamath Palihapitiya, who joined Facebook in 2007 and served as its vice president for user growth. He was referring to the iconic “like” button and other reactions we have while browsing News Feed. Read more…
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View More Former Facebook exec says network is ‘destroying how society works’Think Facebook is the only company watching you? Think again.
Napster founder and Facebook investor Sean Parker recently shared how Facebook optimizes its user experience around certain psychological vulnerabilities.
Now, I want to brighten the mood and tell you that everyone is capable of using your informatio…
Sean Parker made billions off of Facebook. Today he basically called it evil.
You always hurt the ones you love, right?
That’s the only way we can explain Facebook’s founding president Sean Parker’s damning words about the world’s largest social media platform.
Speaking to Axios at the National Constitution Center in Philadelp…