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> and the moral hazard

What’s the moral hazard? For reference, moral hazard doesn’t mean “working at an immoral company”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard

He probably meant a stain on your reputation. The implication is that you have bad morals if you work for Zuck.

Building a widespread surveillance society and a centralized trove of user profile data, in a jurisdiction known for disregarding human rights to privacy (see FAA702 et c) and committing genocide when it suits their ends.

Building such a machine (Instagram, FB, WhatsApp, etc) poses a grave danger to a free society if misused, but Meta will not be the ones directly harmed when the databases they built are misused in bulk by the state to commit mass human rights violations or other atrocities.

I would add the greatly adverse effect on mental health, especially for young people. Here probably Instagram is the worst offender but they just ignore it even though there is concrete data proving the point.

No they don’t “just ignore it”. The studies that show this harm comes from Meta research themselves.

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