'You are being programmed,' former Facebook executive warns

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'You are being programmed,' former Facebook executive warns:

In part in the article says:
"Chamath Palihapitiya, who worked as Facebook's vice president for user growth, was speaking at an event run by the Stanford Graduate School of Business on 10 November in which he described feeling "tremendous guilt' in helping the company attract two billion users.
His comments echoed remarks by Sean Parker, one of the early pioneers of Facebook, who spoke on 8 November, saying the social network provided "a dopamine hit and a social validation feedback loop, that exploited a vulnerability in human psychology.""...
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...Palihapitiya referred to a Facebook blog post in October which said an estimated 10 million people in the US saw Facebook adverts from Russia before and after the US presidential election. The blog said most adverts focused on "divisive social and political messages" on issues like immigration and gun rights...
...In another example, Palihapitiya referred to a hoax circulating on WhatsApp in a village in India. He told the audience the rumor warned parents of child kidnappings which led to the lynching of several people.
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