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They said that was the first thing that came to mind. The first thing that comes to my mind is fueling a genocide in Myanmar[1], but as a parent of a girl, I couldn't care less about Meta's development of React when their own research showed that they "make body-image issues worse for one in three teenage girls." Then there was the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. It's been clear for years that to work for Zuckerberg is to do anything that he thinks will make him rich, the consequences for our children, our democracy, and the rest of the world be damned.

1. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...




If you look at the actual leaked documents from FB (via the WSJ), then you can see that over 1/3rd of girls had their body dysmorphic issues improved by IG.

Oddly enough, this didn't get reported on very much by the media.


fr. I'd like to see pg repudiate Facebook as he's said a lot of positive things about them in the past and YC partnered with them when he was still running YC. https://thenextweb.com/news/facebook-partners-with-y-combina...




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