The ad business has always been about making a fraught deal with our own self-destructive demons. But at least we had some power in those complicated negotiations. We could see what was happening, and we were in what we all knew was a game, together.
Then we turned over the negotiations to Facebook’s algorithms. "No surprise that as our attention has shifted to internet that we have sold our souls ... we think for free ... to FB and Google," said Bill Meehan, a McKinsey director emeritus and lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
On our behalf, Facebook has been perfectly willing to deal with any devil at all.
You can read the rest @
https://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethmacbride/2017/09/24/dark-posts-and-facebooks-deals-with-the-devil/#31ce9f333511
No deals made with the Devil are going to benefit humanity. Facebook is building digital monuments to Mark Zuckerberg's ego, and we have yet to see any benefit from his promised "philanthropy".
Facebook allegedly is a "social" platform, right? Then how come they haven't asked the public how Mark should be spending the money he
For another dark take on Zuckerberg's shenanigans, I suggest you read this revealing op-ed by Maureen Dowd:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/opinion/sunday/facebook-zuckerberg-dowd.html
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