Feb 20, 2023
[T]he brutal fact is the whole way platforms have been built is both a priori exploitative of citizens, and simultaneously easy to exploit by bad actors. It's a system built on surveillance and sucking people’s data to manipulate them; where citizens have no control over, or even understanding about, the algorithms that dictate what we see and subsequently feel and ultimately do online.
Author Peter Pomerantsev, on the manipulative surveillance capitalism model which certain internet platforms are based on. Quoted at The Guardian.
Zuck is now granting you the privilege of paying him to have your personal data sucked up by Fb and Instagram.
Mark Zuckerberg announces a paid subscription model for Instagram called 'Meta Verified'