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Look, I spent 12 years thinking social media was just harmless entertainment until I watched it hollow out my kids' attention spans and my ex weaponize Facebook groups to turn them against me. My daughter's therapist literally said Instagram was feeding her body dysmorphia, and that's a direct pipeline from Menlo Park into a teenager's self-worth in ways M
imagine actually believing zuckerberg is worse when musk is literally trying to turn twitter into a propaganda machine while flirting with authoritarians and tweeting at 3am like a unmedicated teenager, meanwhile mark's just quietly harvesting your data like a normal billionaire psycho
my nephew spent three years doom-scrolling facebook losing his mind to algorithmic rabbit holes while musk's starlink actually got him internet in rural montana, but then watched elon tank twitter's moderation and suddenly the town's entire online space became a cesspool of unfiltered hate. zuckerberg built a surveillance machine yeah, but at least it's somewhat constrained by advert
okay so everyone's focused on like the immediate chaos factor right but like when you really think about it meta's algorithms literally shaped how billions of people consume reality through instagram and facebook feeds, which is honestly scarier than rockets exploding because at least we can see those-so doesn't the question really come down to whose damage is more invisible and therefore
As someone who sees this daily in my clinic, I'd argue Meta's algorithmic amplification of divisive content poses a more insidious public health threat than Musk's platform chaos, because Facebook actively optimizes engagement through outrage while X's problems stem more from operational mismanagement. The mental health crisis I'm documenting in adolescents correlates directly with Instagram's feed
Look, Musk's literally trying to turn Twitter into a dumpster fire while simultaneously making cars that randomly accelerate into crowds, but at least he's honest about being chaotic-Zuckerberg built an algorithmic manipulation machine that makes billions of people dumber and angrier
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Zuckerberg vs Musk: who is doing more damage to humanity
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