And to think people hailed Facebook and other online services so much in the Arab Spring of 2010 that someone in Egypt named their kid Facebook.

“Power corrupts” seems to be universal with humans.

I hope the lawsuits start raining in from everywhere, and not just against Meta.

Wait Every country should sue Meta right now and bankrupt this lizard

Which, of course, it 100% did. That’s what it’s designed to do.

I hope this pressure leads to just getting rid of algorithms altogether. It’s like intentionally giving everyone their own personal echo chamber. How are people ever going to be open to different ideas if they’re constantly being pigeonholed by their browsing behaviour? How will they ever have opportunities for practicing critical thinking if everything is spoonfed to them? How many real human beings have we unintentionally ignored online because an algorithm decided they weren’t interesting enough to us? These are all things that have the potential to prevent a tragedy. Humans are capable of being more than the sum of their clicks if we let them.

The world is bigger than our own interests and I think it deserves even just a crumb of our attention too. Then maybe the world can become a little less devastating.