“If you want to prevent interference in elections, if you want to reduce” Facebook’s top argument against a breakup is that its “family of apps” evolution will be better for users’ safety. When it comes to addressing “the bad,” though, employees are concerned the app is thinking in terms of numbers, not people. Instagram’s team is expert at amplifying “the good.” They also thought about their users as individuals, through the careful curation of an editorial strategy, and partnerships with top accounts. Instagram trained its users on likes and follows, but that wasn’t enough to create the emotional attachment users have to the product today. It’s an intentionally crafted experience, with an impact on its users that is not inevitable, but is the product of a series of choices by its makers about how to shape behavior. Instagram isn’t designed to be a neutral technology, like electricity or computer code. We need to do all we can responsibly to magnify the good and address the bad.”īut nothing “just is,” especially Instagram.
“Mosseri’s answer to the important question was perfect by Facebook standards: “Technology isn’t good or bad-it just is,” he wrote.
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