[philg_jr]

Amazing. All of this truly wild, impressive technology and some of the absolute best engineers in the world, just to shove more ads in people's eyeballs. Sigh.

[umeshunni]

The tragedy of our times is that some of our brightest minds are working tirelessly, not to cure diseases or to explore the stars, but to improve the probability that someone will click on an ad by 0.1%.

[kridsdale1]

Take it up with capitalism and with DARPA. If we could earn $700k doing cool science shit in white shirts and black ties for Uncle Sam like our grandfathers maybe we would.

[nyclounge]

>Amazing. All of this truly wild, impressive technology and some of the absolute best engineers in the world, just to shove more ads in people's eyeballs. Sigh.

If only which that were true, it is more like building our own digital prison.

[njovin]

Hey now let's not downplay what a wonderful vehicle it is for state-sponsored political propaganda and misinformation.

[UltraSane]

That was the old Facebook. The new Facebook is about manipulation of people's politics and opinions.