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'Facebook is a lie-disseminating instrument
of civilizational collapse': Steve Jobs'
widow's magazine accuses social media
giant of being a 'hostile foreign power'

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Posted By: earlybird, 10/1/2021 3:53:00 PM

The Atlantic, the magazine and multi-platform publisher run by a company owned by Steve Jobs' widow, is heaping brutal criticism on Facebook, including calling it an 'instrument of civilizational collapse.' The essay is making a rough week for the social media giant even worse. Executive Editor Adrienne LaFrance referred to Facebook as a 'hostile foreign power' and was heavily critical of CEO Mark Zuckerberg (snip) 'its single-minded focus on its own expansion; its immunity to any sense of civic obligation; its record of facilitating the undermining of elections; its antipathy toward the free press; its rulers’ callousness and hubris; and its indifference to the endurance of American democracy.'

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Liberals duking it out with Liberals. Popcorn?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: volksford 10/1/2021 4:02:58 PM (No. 932310)
Couldn't have said it better myself !
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Reply 2 - Posted by: reefdiver 10/1/2021 4:03:03 PM (No. 932311)
Hostile Power sound right for Fakebook.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Come And Take It 10/1/2021 4:04:01 PM (No. 932312)
That's funny - I consider companies like Crapple to be very much the same.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: triggerberg 10/1/2021 4:08:44 PM (No. 932316)
Well, she’s not wrong.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna 10/1/2021 4:10:33 PM (No. 932319)
In the liberal orchard of wisdom there's a lot of low hanging fruit right now.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: snapper451 10/1/2021 4:11:39 PM (No. 932321)
While she is right, based on this woman's views, Jobs is fortunate he is dead. Imagine dealing with this witch day to day?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: DVC 10/1/2021 6:02:30 PM (No. 932394)
Wow! This is cool. I need to do whatever is necessary to help them beat the hell out of each other.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 10/1/2021 8:39:58 PM (No. 932498)
The Widow Jobs has published numerous lies herself. Let her and Zuckerberg fight.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: cheeflo 10/2/2021 10:22:59 AM (No. 932868)
Considering her politics, I’m astonished she, of all people, said this. She’s been very busy funding said collapse.
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