Facebook Isn't the End of the World – WSJ

‘I’ve come to realize that Facebook is not a media company. It’s a Doomsday Machine,” Atlantic magazine executive editor Adrienne LaFrancewrote in 2020. “No single machine should be able to control the fate of the world’s population,” she observed, quoting nuclear strategist Herman Kahn: “Automating the extinction of all life on Earth would be immoral.” Last week the magazine featured a piece by Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa, recently added to the masthead as a contributing writer. “I’ve said this over and over, that, really, this is like when 140,000 people died instantly in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The same thing has happened in our information ecosystem, but it is silent and it is insidious. . . . An atom bomb has exploded in our information ecosystem.”
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