{"id":19079,"date":"2017-12-12T02:36:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T01:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/12\/former-facebook-executive-social-media-is-ripping-society-apart\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T02:36:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T01:36:38","slug":"former-facebook-executive-social-media-is-ripping-society-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=19079","title":{"rendered":"Former Facebook executive: social media is ripping society apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chamath Palihapitiya, former vice-president of user growth, expressed regret for his part in building tools that destroy \u2018the social fabric of how society works\u2019A former Facebook executive has said he feels \u201ctremendous guilt\u201d over his work on \u201ctools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works\u201d, joining a growing chorus of critics of the social media giant.Chamath Palihapitiya, who was vice-president for user growth at Facebook before he left the company in 2011, said: \u201cThe short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth.\u201d The remarks, which were made at a Stanford Business School event in November, were just surfaced by tech website the Verge on Monday. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/dec\/11\/facebook-former-executive-ripping-society-apart\" target=\"_blank\">Former Facebook executive: social media is ripping society apart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chamath Palihapitiya, former vice-president of user growth, expressed regret for his part in building tools that destroy \u2018the social fabric of how society works\u2019A former Facebook executive has said he feels \u201ctremendous guilt\u201d over his work on \u201ctools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works\u201d, joining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}