No, but they've lost the benefit of doubt. So in the absence of evidence it isn't evil, they're presumed to be so. Facebook pays well. But that's the cost of that compensation, a cost borne in the courts of public opinion and law, as well as in politics.
Come on, man.
Meta being evil to the point of profiting from political manipulation, doxxing, addiction, massive extraction of attention, and genocide, is already established.
In related news, in this time of severe drought, the Mexican cartels have expanded their business to stealing and selling water.
Meta: This is evil. Zuck is a robot. Everyone laugh at the metaverse
Google: Wow when are they going to cancel this
Amazon: I've lost confidence in buying anything from amazon
Apple: Apple is too corporate since Cook took over, I hate the app store monopoly
>Meta: This is evil. Zuck is a robot. Everyone laugh at the metaverse
>Google: Wow when are they going to cancel this
>Amazon: I've lost confidence in buying anything from amazon
>Apple: Apple is too corporate since Cook took over, I hate the app store monopoly
Because it's all accurate*!
You can try and be all hand-wavy about it, but the fact of the matter is these companies do a lot of harm and I will take advantage of every opportunity to warn others. They've long since lost the benefit of the doubt.
* Excluding Apple. I don't have much experience with them or their platform(s) to make an informed argument either way.
That they still exist and making money hand over fist should be considered a wonderful, quirky oddity of human fatuousness. I don't think they should be protected.
I don't agree with a lot of Meta's practices, but it's not like every single thing they do is purely evil... Every once in a while, something they do is cool and I think people are being dishonest if people don't recognize that.