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From President Trump to LuLaRoe: The Many Crimes of Facebook
It’s long past time to regulate social media like any other utility.
As disappointing revelations about beloved companies go, the disastrous mess at Time’s Up being one of the more surprising and the dark underbelly of the Lincoln Project being one of the least, Facebook barely registers.
Of course Facebook has a toxic work environment. Now that we have a more convenient label for that sorry state of vocational life, plenty of disgruntled employees are laying claim to it, some with better reasons than others. From the office of the Vice President of the United States to the boardroom of your local chamber of commerce, you can’t throw a rock these days without hitting a toxic work environment.
Cliches like “toxic work environment” are often cliche for a reason. Toxic work environments are penultimate, ubiquitous; they transcend space, time, culture. An employee being hotly abused by their boss is immediately recognizable in any language.
Of course Facebook is terrible for us, our relationships and our mental health. Of course Instagram is bad for young people; of course Facebook knows that.
They know- in case you’ve missed how tailored advertising has become to your browsing habits- everything about us.