You Can't Make Friends With The Rockstars
I am tired of hearing about Mark Zuckerberg's "new look," in part because I don't care about it, and in part because I see it as yet another blatant — and successful — attempt to divert attention from the outright decay of the platforms he runs.
It doesn't matter that Mark Zuckerberg has a gold chain, nor is it of any journalistic importance to ask him why he's wearing it, as any questions around or articles about his new look are, by definition, a distraction from the very real and damaging things that Mark Zuckerberg does every day, like how Facebook and Instagram are intentionally manipulative and harmful platforms or how Meta, as a company, creates far more emissions than it can cover with renewable energy, or that Meta's AI product's only differentiating feature is that its 500 million monthly active users are helping kill our planet by generating meaningless slop.
In a just world, every piece about Mark Zuckerberg would include something about how decrepit Meta's products are, its weak-handed approach to drug cartels and human traffickers, or how Facebook's algorithm regularly boosted and supported anti-vax groups. For over a decade, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have acted with a complete disregard for user safety, all while pedling a product that actively impedes users from seeing their friends' posts, abusing them with a continual flow of intrusive and annoying ads.
