Elon Musk Supports Sacha Cohen, Tweets #DeleteFacebook: It’s Lame!
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Facebook has been accused of propagating fake news, abusing users' private data, causing depression and suicidal thoughts, and an apparent coziness with the Trump administration, but now it faces boycott calls by two popular figures.
According to Tech Crunch, one of Facebook's most prominent critics, somewhat unexpectedly, is comic, writer and actor Sacha Baron Cohen. Indeed, his powerful speech to the Anti-Defamation League in November, characterizing Facebook as the “greatest propaganda machine in history,” quickly went viral. And Cohen isn’t done railing against Zuckerberg, however. Last Wednesday, he tweeted in frustration, “We don’t let 1 person control the water for 2.5 billion people. We don’t let 1 person control electricity for 2.5 billion people. Why do we let 1 man control the information seen by 2.5 billion people? Facebook needs to be regulated by governments, not ruled by an emperor!”
On Saturday morning, Tesla founder Elon Musk responded to Cohen, himself tweeting “#DeleteFacebook it’s lame.”
Musk and Zuckerberg have butted heads in the past over the future of artificial intelligence, too. In 2014, Musk reportedly met with Zuckerberg, researchers from Facebook’s AI lab and two other Facebook executives at Zuckerberg’s Palo Alto home in an effort to convince Musk that he was wrong about the potential dangers of AI. Musk wasn’t persuaded, calling Zuckerberg’s understanding of the future of AI “limited” in 2017.
A new report links social media use (such as Facebook and Instagram) to mental distress in teens.
In 2018, a former Facebook executive, Chamath Palihapitiya said he felt tremendous guilt for building a tool that is ripping apart society. He urges everyone to take a hard break from these tools. He says he does not post much on Facebook because he does not want to be "programmed."
Chamath Palihapitiya is a venture capitalist who was born in Sri Lanka, raised in Canada, and has worked for much of his life in Silicon Valley. Palihapitiya is an owner and board member of the Golden State Warriors.
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