Was the former vice president of human programming element, this is Facebook's answer

At an interview at Stanford last November, Chmath Palihapitiya, former Vice President of Facebook, said that social networking is "destroying the way society works."

During a talk at Stanford University, Chamath commented that social networks are destroying our society. He is not the first person, nor the only one who gives such an attitude to the work he used to do.

Palihapitiya said a lot in the interview around the impact of Facebook on society, but this is the most important paragraph:

'The passive and addictive feedback segments we create are destroying the way society functions. There is no knowledge. There is no cooperation. Wrong information. The truth is false. This is not an American problem, not a Russian advertisement, but a global issue. In my opinion, we are in a very bad situation . '

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Chmath Palihapitiya expressed regret for joining hands to create Facebook

He also said that Facebook builders from the early days soon learned it would be abused in the future, but ignored it. Palihapitiya said. ' Deep down in our minds, we somehow knew this could happen '. He felt very guilty for being involved in creating the human psychological tool he called 'programming'.

Readers can view the entire interview here:

Chamath's comments were quickly shared, causing Facebook to speak up:

Chamath hasn't worked at Facebook for 6 years. When he was working here, Facebook also focused on bringing the experience of using social networks and global growth. Facebook time was very different back then and during the development process, we realized our responsibilities were also greater. We value that role and work hard to accomplish it.

We do a lot of research with experts and academics to understand the impact of Facebook on people and inform the product development team. We also invest significantly in people, technology, processes - and as Mark Zuckerberg says - we are also willing to reduce profits to ensure proper investment.

Palihapitiya also founded the Social Capital venture capital fund. Do you tell CNBN that you talk about social networking in general, and that you owe Facebook 'everything', that 'they are doing more than any company to save things'.

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