By electrifying democratic politics, it has become a handmaiden of autocracy in most cases and fascism in some. While Mark Zuckerberg appears evasive and nonplussed at congressional hearings, political scientists have raised an alarm about surveillance capitalism that the social media giants indulges in, mostly in cahoots with the State. But the profit model of social media, making dough via noise and disinformation at the expense of sense and wisdom, itself remains unchallenged at a fundamental level... That Facebook prizes profits, public relations, branding and image-making over civic consequences for people in countries as varied as Myanmar and the United States, is telling. And the grave consequences of its ethical deficit — from genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, or corroded republican ideals in the USA — have only started to materialise.
Annie Domini, 'Ankhi Das Stepping Down Is an Eyewash: Facebook Won't Change its Ways', Leaflet