The Implications of Facebook Falsehoods
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Throughout history and literature, there are certain storylines that are carried from century to century. One of those is the protagonist who, overcome with ambition, creates something that he becomes obsessed with bettering and evolving. Isolated from the world, alone in his lab with his creation, the protagonist sees nothing but progress. Failing to have any objective reality to compare to, he evolves and evolves his creation until one day he steps back and he’s totally lost control. “I’ve created a MONSTER!” He screams. But at least Macbeth gets what he deserves and Viktor Frankenstein chases the thing he created to the ends of the earth trying to understand it.
Mark Zuckerberg is one such creator who totally lost control. AND he refuses to admit there is anything wrong with his monster.
It’s 2016. 1.79 billion people use Facebook every month. That’s more people than there are in China, the biggest country on the planet. Facebook has become one of the top sources of news consumption — 44 percent of Americans get their news from the site. Major media outlets have been scrambling to keep up.
