I think the blowback is because of what Zuck represents.
Facebook is kinda like the Trump of the tech world in that they have a very bad reputation and have no morals, but they have a lot of money and power and so people get tempted.
They are going all in on making social media mostly interactions w/ fake AI posts, they pushed a genocide, they got Trump elected in 2016, racial bias, spying on kids, etc.
Criticism of Facebook’s role in the Rohingya genocide largely focuses on anti-Rohingya speech. But targeting the in-group also played a significant role.
dangerousspeech.org
Victims in US and UK legal action accuse social media firm of failing to prevent incitement of violence
www.theguardian.com
Because Trump wasn’t spending as much on TV ads, it seemed like his team wasn't investing in changing minds. But they were: they were just doing it online.
www.wired.com
Profiting from misinformation has put the company back on the defensive
www.theverge.com
Facebook has yanked its vampiric Onavo Protect service—which purports to be a privacy-enhancing Virtual Private Network (VPN) but is by all indications
gizmodo.com
Explore the controversial Facebook Project Atlas, where teens were compensated to install a VPN for data collection.
pcsite.co.uk
Maybe check your data archive to see if Facebook’s algorithms know who you called.
arstechnica.com