Daily Mail

Giant damned by own staff

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SEVERAL former Facebook employees have spoken openly about the dangers of the social media platform previously.

Co-founder Sean Parker said last year that the social network actively aimed for people to become addicted, adding: ‘God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.’

He said: ‘The inventors, creators … understood this consciousl­y. And we did it anyway.’

Justin Rosenstein, the engineer who helped Leah Pearlman create the ‘like’ button in 2007, has warned of Facebook’s ‘negative consequenc­es’. He said last year that the ‘like’ gives users ‘bright dings of pseudo-pleasure’ that can easily backfire and have ‘unintended’ repercussi­ons.

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