Meanwhile, the industry continues to race towards automating jobs and developing artificial intelligence while legislation regarding any and all new technology lags woefully behind. We're still deciding what to do with the internet...

short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops.....yikes

"Get the money, and don't lose your moral compass on the way."
But also, "we knew, in the back of our minds, that something could go wrong" from using psychological knowledge and preying on people's insecurities with their massive data collection.
Yet, "it was unintentional."

Yeah, not so much. Way to not lose your moral compass there bub. Too little, too late.

And now he's getting attention for being a doom-sayer ("destroying society" "ripping apart the social fabric" OMG! ) and telling people how capitalism "fucking" is, yet desperately trying to believe that some sort of "diversity" of the super-rich can make ... any sort of difference for the rest of us?

Nah, not so much.

Not while the FB juggernaut crushes onward to eventually hoist the soon-to-be candidate Mark Zuckerberk [sic] to the presidency. Which is just what we need, another dim-witted self-important douchebag bro-tastic president surrounded by yes-men.

Whatever.

The entire history of human civilization has consisted of new innovations ripping apart the fabric of society, oftentimes violently and at great cost to individuals. However, the fabric always adapts and gets re-woven so it can be ripped apart again. Society will be fine, it will just be different. You, however, may be fucked.

@5 - Amen.

Facebook is definitely deceiving advertisers.