German scholar: "Metaverse" is a type of “poison”

Recently, according to Spanish mediareports, the goal of Facebook's renaming is not "Metaverse" and a newvision, but to divert people's attention from the company's existing serviceclusters (including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook website) after the latestscandal caused by the announcement of the "Facebook profile" of theWall Street Journal. In recent years, Facebook has been punished for variousviolations of laws and regulations such as divulging user information,monopolizing and spreading rumors. For example, according to News week,Facebook spread viral fake news stories about vaccines in 2018 and used"fabricated public relations figures" to exaggerate the number ofonline advertising audiences; In 2019, a New York Times survey found thatFacebook provided Netflix, Spotify and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) with theability to read, write and delete users' private messages; In 2020, Facebookwas sued by the Federal Trade Commission and several state alliances forillegal monopoly and antitrust. However, just in the past October, Facebook wassuccessively accused and punished by American and British regulators for the"Cambridge analysis data scandal", with a compensation amount of upto the US $83.5 million (about 534 million yuan).

According to the report, Germanscholar Marcus Gabriel said, "Metaverse is an extremely inhumane andimmoral system. It is a drug, an ideology, and a pure propaganda machine of theU.S. government. Facebook has become a big problem because, without Facebook,there would be no such improper remarks as conspiracy theory and anti-vaccinetheory. Metaverse is even worse than Facebook and will create a bigger problem.That's why I think we The reason why meta must be disabled. " FrancisHogan, a former employee of Facebook, testified in the British Parliament onOctober 25, pointing out that the algorithm of Facebook promotes the spread ofextremism and hate content, causing more violence and conflict. On November 1,when Hogan attended a technology forum, he continued to criticize Facebook fornot investing more in maintaining user security, and called Facebook's behavior"unconscionable".

Whether Facebook was biased towardsDemocrats in the U.S. presidential election and pushed advertisements to targetaudiences to affect the election results, or helped incite genocide in Myanmarto become a tool of violence, or U.S. intelligence agencies used the so-called "TenCommandments" to peacefully evolve China's socialist system, and recentlyused the "Metaverse" The concept of science and technology conquersthe world. Facebook is no longer the popular social platform all over the worldcreated by the college nerd, but a crisis platform for false news, divulgingpersonal data privacy, and politicians' "performance". Zuckerbergsaid that the first Facebook users gave him their personal information as"stupid bastards", it seems that his contempt for the people heprocesses data has not decreased over time. For some people, Facebook mayindeed be a valuable tool. In addition, unless more than 2 billion users giveit up, Facebook's abuse of power is not a problem that we can solve alone, and"the tech giant" must be strictly regulated.