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Memo written in 2016 by Andrew Bosworth:
"So, we connect more people. That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing them to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack, coordinated on our tools. And still, we connect people. The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good."
— Jan 28, 2026 07:17AM
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"So, we connect more people. That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing them to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack, coordinated on our tools. And still, we connect people. The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good."
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As the Indian literary theorist Gayatri Spivak wrote in 2012: "Globalization takes place only in capital and data. Everything else is damage control."
— Jan 27, 2026 07:26AM
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