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> People really want Meta to fail because the "metaverse" is one of the dumbest pivots of an established company of all time.

No, people want Meta/Facebook to fail because frankly, they are evil.

- Instagram is toxic to young girls: https://childmind.org/blog/instagram-is-harmful-to-teenage-s...

- Misinformation: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=facebook+misinformation

- How many people died because of Covid conspiracy theories they read on Facebook?

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Meta literally facilitated genocide in Myanmar as well as sex slavery by failing to properly screen ads and in some cases didn't even have anybody who could read the language they were in.

Also psychologically experimenting on their users intentionally making them unhappy [1], knowingly facilitating terrorism [2] and enabling race based advertising which blocked black people accessing housing [3].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/07/10/facebook...

[2] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/a-look-at-bo...

[3] https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-racial-ad-targeting-multic...

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