Humans used to be animist and lived in tribes, and then they lived in villages and become polytheist, those village formed empires and they become monotheist, these empire fall and government rises as humans become nationalist, these days we see corporations hold more power than governments as humans slowly drift to a new form of worship, capitalism..
Just the way humans evolve maybe?
I don't believe Zuckerberg has a conspiracy to be the next world dominant fascist. Even if his company's actions seemingly drift towards so. I think he does all those stuff only in he name of "creating value for the investors" and if making money means brainwashing half the world population, so be it.
The rise of online Big Data powered social media does and has irreversible affect on the way humans live, just like electricity and governments. Just like how on-demand porn has caused dopamine addictions never seen before in human history.
It's very dangerous water we are threading as a species and unfortunately regulation is failing to keep up with the pace of technology, AI, social media, advertising and surveillance ("behavioral data mining"), gene-editing technology, open source cryptocurrency, space exploration all are wonderful technology with consequences that will affect the course of humanity, either making human lives better or throwing humanity into a distopian world.
On your topic of social media creating an echo chamber, I guess the best defense for us users is to expand our horizon as far as we can and to entertain all forms of idea even if we at first don't accept them.
But of course, 40 thousand years from now the Space Marine will tell you
An open mind is like a fortress with its gates and door unguarded.
I apologize for bringing up Warhammer 40k reference😂😂😂😂
Haha never apologize for that. All references are welcome :)
I actually think Zuckerberg's motives are irrelevant, just what they seek.. All we know is that they started as a social media company, then they started tracking data.. Then they started spying on people even if they log out.
Then they expanded to spying on people even if they delete the app.. So at this point they were already a data selling company.
Then they decided to cut the middle man, and started engaging in social engendering to shape people's views, and inserting listening devices to get dirt on people and sell those (espionage and what not).
This is very creepy and not everyone will condone that, it takes a very special type of person for that. Notice how many high Facebook execs quit because their conscience couldn't take it anymore.
All of them say the same thing, we knew what we were doing was horrible but we did it anyways.
But then again, this isn't a character assassination. It's about what the company does, I added him in the end just to plug the joke in, but it was never personal :)
Thanks for the great comment btw!