> Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.
That's from 2021 [0]. If you go to their mission statement today [1], it reads:
> Build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but -- at a time when there is a loneliness epidemic, when people are more isolated and divided than ever, when people are segmented into their little bubbles (both online and IRL) -- Meta is not only abdicating their responsibility to help connect humanity, but actively making the problem worse.
That's from 2021 [0]. If you go to their mission statement today [1], it reads:
> Build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but -- at a time when there is a loneliness epidemic, when people are more isolated and divided than ever, when people are segmented into their little bubbles (both online and IRL) -- Meta is not only abdicating their responsibility to help connect humanity, but actively making the problem worse.
[0]: https://www.facebook.com/government-nonprofits/blog/connecti...
[1]: https://www.meta.com/about/company-info/