The creator of the social network MeWe Mark Weinstein: Facebook is a data collection company Facebook problem. In an interview with Lenta.ru, the specialist called the American company “a huge gorilla that manipulates the whole world.”
Weinstein noted that 3.14 billion people have a Facebook account. “It turns out that half of the planet reads what this social network selects for them. At the same time, Facebook's only motivation is to manipulate people's emotions so that they are as involved as possible. Because this is exactly what Facebook makes money on, “he revealed the mechanism.
According to the expert, Facebook is not really a social network, but a data collection company that it sells. “Facebook can’t fix it, it’s a huge gorilla that manipulates the whole world,” he said. Weinstein noted that everyone can pay social networks to “target” anything to a person, for example, to push him to buy something that he absolutely does not need or may even harm him.
Weinstein added that Facebook's motives run counter to both the interests of humanity and the ideas of capitalism. “Traditional capitalism motivates people to create a good product that real people enjoy. Businessmen and entrepreneurs should delight clients, serve them, accept them as they are, ”he said. At the same time, according to the creator of MeWe, the real clients of Facebook are not users, but marketers, advertisers, politicians and governments.
Weinstein told Lenta.ru in more detail about the work of social networks in a large interview as part of a large-scale special project “ Algorithm. Who controls you? ” The project explores how the algorithms of the world's most popular services affect individuals, society, politics and global world processes. In six parts of the project, it is analyzed in detail how the content ranking system in social networks affects the real life of millions of people: it imperceptibly changes a person's attitude to love, family, friendship, society, and affects the intellectual abilities of people. In addition, the Lenta.ru YouTube channel publishes a three-part documentary series that explores who and how manipulates humanity with the help of algorithms, how they change reality, what dangers they pose to the world and how humanity resists these challenges.