George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society
From the speech transcript [ <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16237684" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16237684</a> ]:<p>“Social media companies deceive their users by manipulating their attention and directing it towards their own commercial purposes. They deliberately engineer addiction to the services they provide. This can be very harmful, particularly for adolescents. There is a similarity between internet platforms and gambling companies.”<p>Good points to raise, but as a former Googler, I’m a bit surprised how he does not distinguish between Google and FB at all. Are we all Google addicted then? Remember Google’s main business, Search, is still about getting you away from Google as quick as possible.