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Ed Zitron
一位专注于技术行业影响和操纵的播客主持人和创作者。
Ed Zitron: 我认为,如果Meta和扎克伯格在过去十年中真正承担责任,事情可能会大不一样。媒体未能直白地报道Facebook有多糟糕,导致扎克伯格等科技高管得以公然破坏用户体验。一些人希望科技高管拥有权力,不愿承认产品存在问题,导致平台缺乏监管。Facebook的核心产品自2008年以来每月都在恶化,媒体却对此缺乏足够的关注和批判性报道。Facebook对数十亿用户造成的损害应该被视为重大事件,受到媒体的重视。媒体能够报道零售盗窃等问题,却对Facebook的危害视而不见,这是一种双重标准。Facebook应该像一个充斥着暴力和混乱的城市一样受到媒体的关注和批判。Facebook对用户的影响力巨大,其负面影响应该被视为大规模伤害事件。Facebook的危害不仅仅在于虚假信息和骚扰,还在于其糟糕的用户体验。Facebook糟糕的用户体验剥夺了用户的尊严和自主决策能力。Facebook充斥着虚假信息、骚扰和有害内容,但媒体对其的报道却不够重视。Facebook的负面影响已经持续多年,媒体却对此无所作为。认为Meta突然变坏是一种舒适的谎言,掩盖了媒体和社会长期以来对Facebook问题的忽视。一些媒体人士长期以来对Meta的报道过于正面,未能揭露其负面影响。Meta计划在其平台上增加AI生成的內容,这将进一步降低平台的质量。Meta唯一关心的是让你留在其平台上以便投放更多广告,即使这意味着你无法找到你想要的东西。Meta的所有行为都可以追溯到其“腐烂经济”模式,即不惜一切代价追求增长。Facebook的用户实际上是其产品的受害者,而不是使用者。科技产品质量的恶化受到了太少的关注,Facebook由于其在社交媒体上的垄断地位,其产品质量下降尤为严重。缺乏监管和顺从的媒体使得扎克伯格可以为增加广告收入而为所欲为。谷歌搜索结果的恶化也是为了增加广告收入。苹果应用商店的混乱和应用内购的盛行也是为了增加广告收入。扎克伯格取消事实核查和放松社区标准只是科技行业腐败的开始。特朗普的行为导致社会对道德标准的容忍度降低,科技行业也受到了影响。媒体对科技产品质量恶化的缺乏报道和对科技高管的问责制不足,导致这些公司可以肆无忌惮地损害用户体验。扎克伯格的行为将进一步降低科技行业的道德底线。扎克伯格公开表示不在乎用户体验,这将鼓励其他科技公司效仿。科技行业将进入一个新的时代,在这个时代里,公司将公开地损害用户体验以追求利润增长。特朗普政府不太可能对大型科技公司进行有效的监管。之前的政府对大型科技公司的监管也不够有效。媒体未能对科技公司进行大规模的问责,导致其产品质量下降。特朗普政府上台将导致科技公司更加肆无忌惮地损害用户体验。Facebook、微软等公司将继续保持其垄断地位,不会受到有效挑战。科技行业将进入一个新的时代,在这个时代里,公司将更加公开地蔑视消费者。Facebook和Instagram的现状将进一步恶化,公司将不顾后果地发布更多AI生成的内容。Instagram将变得更加具有剥削性和不稳定性,广告也会变得更加糟糕。谷歌和微软也正在将AI功能强加给用户,提高价格但用户并不需要这些功能。谷歌和微软提高价格并添加AI功能的行为是不合理的。科技公司为了追求增长而牺牲了产品质量和用户体验。那些创造出人们喜欢的产品的科技公司已经不复存在了。用户已经开始注意到科技产品中存在的问题,这些问题将变得越来越严重。科技行业将进入一个新的时代,在这个时代里,公司将更加不负责任地对待用户和产品。科技公司对自身产品的质量下降过于乐观,用户最终可能会停止使用这些产品。没有公司是不可战胜的,科技公司最终也会走向衰落。所有科技公司都可以被击败,用户停止使用其产品也是一种对抗方式。用户不应该放弃希望,应该继续对科技公司施加压力。用户应该公开讨论科技公司的行为,让更多人了解真相。
Casey Newton: Casey Newton 对扎克伯格的报道过于正面,未能及时指出其行为的危险性。Casey Newton 对Meta的报道过于轻描淡写,未能揭露其产品的恶化和扎克伯格的危险野心。Casey Newton 经常选择忽视Meta核心产品质量差的事实,转而宣传其AI产品和模糊的未来承诺。Casey Newton 选择性地批评独立评论家,这表明其立场可能偏向于权力方。Casey Newton 的文章试图破坏对Facebook Files的报道,是对举报人和记者的侮辱。Casey Newton 应该更加积极地挑战科技公司,而不是为其辩护。Casey Newton 长期以来利用其平台为科技公司辩护,掩盖其产品的缺陷。
Mark Zuckerberg: Meta 和扎克伯格如果在过去十年中真正承担责任,事情可能会大不一样。
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Ed Zitron: 'Zuckerberg, like many tech executives, has been allowed to destroy the user experience in broad daylight because the media...'
Ed Zitron: 'The core product of Facebook has gone incrementally worse seemingly every month since 2008...'
Ed Zitron: 'If a tanker overturned on a highway...'
Ed Zitron: 'Now, one argument might be, well, it isn't really clear what the harms of social media are...'
Ed Zitron: 'Because if streets were littered with needles and corpses and fires and trash and violence...'
Ed Zitron: 'Facebook is used by billions of people...'
Ed Zitron: 'And it's not just about misinformation...'
Ed Zitron: 'But we treat it like this cute little thing in the fucking corner...'
Ed Zitron: 'But it happens on Facebook...'
Ed Zitron: 'a comfortable lie, I think, to say that Met has suddenly done something bad here because it gives the media and society kind of a free pass...'
Ed Zitron: 'There have been some members of the media that have actively worked to support and celebrate what Meta has done for years...'
Ed Zitron: 'But it's also really important to note that Casey was cheerfully covering Zuckerberg and, I quote, his expansive view of the future as recently as September 25th, 2024...'
Ed Zitron: 'Ridiculous, cowardly, paper tiger analysis, stenography for the powerful, masters deep thoughts...'
Ed Zitron: 'Casey Newton has regularly and reliably turned his back on the truth that Meta's core products are really quite bad...'
Ed Zitron: 'But on top of that, when you choose to single out a writer, a writer who is critiquing the powerful...'
Ed Zitron: 'Suggesting that one is taking detailed notes on bloggers is an attempt to intimidate people...'
Ed Zitron: 'That woman is incredibly brave, as are the reporters that cover this...'
Ed Zitron: 'And I'm furious...'
Ed Zitron: 'Casey has spent years using his platform to subtly defend these companies...'
Ed Zitron: 'Now the media and people like Casey...'
Ed Zitron: 'And as a result, public policy has been directly influenced.'
Ed Zitron: 'That's just worrying...'
Ed Zitron: 'I think that where we are right now with this kind of unvarnished, unrepentant Mark Zuckerberg is,...'
Ed Zitron: 'I think that all of the changes he's making at Meta, it's going to create this new era of decay...'
Ed Zitron: 'In an interview with the Financial Times from December 2024, Meta's VP of Product for Generative AI, Connor Hayes, said that Meta expects AI to actually over time exist on Meta's platforms...'
Ed Zitron: 'This came hot off the heels of Mark Zuckerberg saying in a quarterly earnings call that Meta would,...'
Ed Zitron: 'It turns out, by the way, that these bots have been around for over a year in various forms that were so unpopular that nobody really noticed in 2023 until the Financial Times story came up at the end of 2024...'
Ed Zitron: 'Even if the reason you're seeing it is because you can't find the things you actually want to find...'
Ed Zitron: 'And all of this is because,...'
Ed Zitron: 'But I'm going to be honest, it's almost ridiculous to call us users of Facebook at this point...'
Ed Zitron: 'It's fucking farcical how little attention has been given to how bad tech products have gotten...'
Ed Zitron: 'Which, along with a lack of regulation and a fairly compliant media, has given Mark Zuckerberg and Meta permission to do just about anything they want...'
Ed Zitron: 'It's the same thing that happened with Google search,...'
Ed Zitron: 'And I believe that Mark Zuckerberg loosening community standards and killing fact-checking is just the beginning of tech's real era of decay...'
Ed Zitron: 'See, it's Trump really inspires people,...'
Ed Zitron: 'A lack of media coverage of the actual decay of these products and a lack of accountability for tech executives,...'
Ed Zitron: 'I believe, however, that Zuckerberg is going to move the tech Overton window a little bit further...'
Ed Zitron: 'And he knows that in his position as the CEO of one of the most powerful companies in the world,...'
Ed Zitron: 'Tech's already taken liberties with the digital experience,...'
Ed Zitron: 'I realize there's also an obvious thing I'm not saying, that the Trump administration isn't going to be any kind of regulatory force against Big Tech...'
Ed Zitron: 'EU's done some stuff, but even then, there's no quality standards...'
Ed Zitron: 'and really has been pretty weak against everyone else as well...'
Ed Zitron: 'And now that Trump and the general magified mindset of you can do or say whatever you want if you do so confidently or loudly enough has risen to power again...'
Ed Zitron: 'But what I'm really describing is an era of industrial contempt for the consumer,...'
Ed Zitron: 'I believe that the already fucked up state of these platforms will just massively accelerate...'
Ed Zitron: 'Sadly, I think we're already seeing these abusive practices come out elsewhere...'
Ed Zitron: 'They're going to knock up the prices and they're going to go, but you got free AI. Isn't free. Isn't free if I have to pay more, mate...'
Ed Zitron: 'These companies must express growth every single quarterly earnings or see their stock prices crater,...'
Ed Zitron: 'actually liking, yeah, they're dead...'
Ed Zitron: 'And you are more than likely already seeing signs that this is happening...'
Ed Zitron: 'And I deeply worry that we're going to enter now into the most irresponsible era of tech yet,...'
Ed Zitron: 'I think as crappy as these companies are going to get,...'
Ed Zitron: 'They assume that because they've never really been held accountable,...'
Ed Zitron: 'Every empire, even the worst one, ends.'
Ed Zitron: 'Meta, while they may seem unstoppable...'
Ed Zitron: 'AI is not going to save them...'
Ed Zitron: 'All of these companies can be beaten,...'
Ed Zitron: 'I'm really working out how I can start deleting myself from these services...'
Ed Zitron: 'Don't give up hope,...'
Ed Zitron: 'So talk about the things they've done...'
Deep Dive
This chapter explores how Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have been allowed to worsen user experience due to lax regulation and media complicity. It questions the media's reluctance to report on the negative impacts of Facebook despite its widespread use.
- Lax regulation and media complicity allowed Meta to worsen user experience.
- The core product of Facebook has deteriorated since 2008.
- The media's failure to address Facebook's harm is compared to its coverage of other issues like retail theft.
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