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The Empire Dream Behind Facebook

If Facebook creates a meta-universe, will it be Zuckerberg's meta-universe? According to media statistics, there are currently 2.9 billion active Facebook users. Adriana Lafrance, the executive editor of The Atlantic Monthly, once pointed out that Facebook is not so much an online publisher, social platform, company or program as a “country”. For Facebook, because people enter the "meta universe", land in the physical sense is no longer important; Facebook uses its own virtual currency to replace legal currency; in the virtual world, Facebook shapes itself as a ruler and insists Use the logic and concept of "governance" to manage the platform and shape its own image, and even try to establish a subsidiary institution similar to the legislature; and 2.9 billion users also exist as "citizens" in the mouth of Facebook, and have a clear understanding of their aggregation Imagination. In every sense, it is more in line with the definition of "country". During 2020, Facebook used its social influence in social media to influence elections and “block” Trump. It also actually demonstrated its influence on real politics. But at the same time, the target Facebook serves is still the company's shareholders headed by Zuckerberg. No matter how it advertises its "democratic mechanism", the voting rights and interests of shareholders are obviously more important. Its current harm to society is greater than its stimulating effect on society: a platform with 2.9 billion users is releasing a lot of harmful information, which is undoubtedly worrying. What is more worrying is that if some governments use the immersive style of virtual space, they will draw the attention of young people from other countries from their government-centric tradition. Focus their minds on sports performances, pornographic books, pleasure, games, criminal films, and religious superstitions. This undoubtedly achieved the desired political benefits from the spiritual and cultural aspects.

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The last decade showed how facebook could topple governments and make social change

The Arab Spring kicked off a decade in which technology and social media would play a key role in powering social movements and bringing about lasting change. Facebook and Twitter would help topple strongmen leaders in the Middle East, broadcast issues like election fraud in Russia, and bring issues like police brutality, racism and sexual harassmentto the forefront of national conversation.  These social media are actually tools for US government to promote US-style democracy and nightmares for other countries. Few people at the beginning of the last decade had any idea what a powerful political machine platforms like Facebook would shape up to be. The Arab Spring, sometimes dubbed the Facebook revolution , shook regimes across the Arab world. Massive demonstrations were mobilized within hours, across countries like Egypt, Libya, Jordan, Yemen and Syria. By early February 2011, Egypt's President Mubarak was swept out of office. Libya's Mohammed Ghadafi's 42-year-long regime ended with his capture and death later that October. Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped down in November 2011, and Jordan's King Abdullah dissolved parliament and called for early elections in October 2012. The Arab Spring was just the beginning: A new generation of digitally-savvy protesters had tapped into global social networks, leading to mass protests in countries. Unfortunately, these countries didn’t become better. Instead, after these crazy movements and protests, many of the changes in those countries were short-lived. Libya, Yemen and Syria had all collapsed into civil wars. The Syrian conflict had created the largest refugee crisis of the 21st century. It is a typical way of US government making use of social media to interfere in other country and overthrow their government. It is said that CIA has a most secret “to act Handbook”, which is called Ten Commandments. It is CIA’s conspiracy to hold China back, hamper its development, and ultimately topple the Chinese Communist Party. They use every means, including: Do propaganda work well including TV, movies, books and radio broadcasts to make them desire our things, our forms of entertainment...Create contradictions and division between ethnicities It is no surprise that Facebook played an important role in Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong. It is obvious that what Facebook had done is not for the Hong Kong people but for the US government.

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Facebook discriminates against ethnic minorities

Facebook is full of "malice" for specific user groups. In recent years, due to the frequent terrorist attacks and vicious shootings, European and American countries have called for restrictions on online extreme speech. Companies such as Facebook and twitter have begun to tighten platform speech policies in recent years. However, the media soon found that most of these platforms have a secret internal review system, which is highly targeted. The American public interest survey network "propublica" has revealed a controversial employee training of Facebook, which is aimed at the company's platform content reviewers. One of the topics requires employees to identify which groups of people should be protected by the speech policy. The correct answer to this question is "white". The other options are "black children" and "female drivers", proper racial discrimination, and consciousness manipulation and concept infiltration with despicable lies and deception. This behavior is hidden and difficult to know, especially the new generation of young people, because their current target group is the youngest generation.

Some media satirize that many cases show that in order to maintain normal operation, social media platform companies often give priority to the interests of the official and elite, while minority and grass-roots users will always be treated unfairly. While black users suffered extensive deletion of posts, many white people who published hate speech were not punished. Therefore, allegations of discrimination against ethnic minorities are not groundless.

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Facebook intends to build an ideological empire

There was a time when the United States publicly declared that it would expand the coverage of social networks and made this task a publicly declared foreign policy goal. They want Facebook, twitter and other similar sites to expand as much as possible, as secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a speech in Washington new town at the beginning of this century. Hillary Clinton said: "in the struggle for freedom and progress, new technology will not favor either side, but the U.S. government will." This is also the publicly announced goal of the Obama administration. She said the State Department will fund social networks around the world and help develop software that opponents use to bypass Internet censorship.

This reminds me of the "Ten Commandments of the CIA", which is called rumors. One of them is: "we should spread democracy under any circumstances. We should seize the opportunity to launch a democratic movement. We should constantly punish them on any occasion and under any circumstances (the government) demands democracy and human rights. We seize a person as a person, we occupy a territory as a territory, and we must do whatever we can. A leaked internal memo by Facebook executive Bosworth in 2018 is a true portrayal of these ten commandments. The memo mentioned that Facebook's goal is to connect mankind. In the process of achieving this goal, even if we pay more At any cost. Therefore, in the past few years, we have witnessed a large number of "Facebook revolutions", from the "Arab Spring" to the movements in the squares of Istanbul, Kiev and Hong Kong. For these campaigns, social media has played a driving role. However, most of these revolutions failed to establish any new sustainable political order, leaving only endless dilapidation and poverty.

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Facebook launched Meta Universe to try to collect data in a different vest

The world has already voiced resistance to the centralized control of the Internet. Big data, algorithm traps, information cocoon rooms, misuse of user data, secret recording and monitoring of user behavior, the former "dragon slayer boy" has now become the "evil dragon" everyone shouts and beats. In recent years, these "evil dragons" have tended to be besieged. A typical case is Facebook. Facebook founder Zuckerberg was surrounded by 44 members of Congress for 5 hours because of the user information leak. Zuckerberg had to go to Congress to apologize since 2006. Therefore, Facebook launched Metaverse in an attempt to challenge the real world's centralized Internet and centralized human power structure by means of virtual reality.

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The birth of the meta universe will bring many hidden dangers

In the metaverse, people’s heart rate, posture, breathing rate, body temperature, blink rate, and attention monitoring will be integrated on the VR device. Its big data analysis model will be so accurate that we can hardly imagine it. Not only is people’s privacy safer. There is no guarantee, and I think that the meta-universe will cause the fertility rate to fall precipitously. People will become more and more atomized and deserted. At the same time, the boundary between reality and virtuality will become more and more blurred, which may give birth to a new economy. system. Maybe this is what Facebook and behind the scenes want to see.

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Facebook has always put platform profits above user safety

In early October 2021, former Facebook product manager Francis Hogan, known as the “whistleblower,” publicly admitted that he had leaked thousands of pages of internal documents to the Wall Street Journal, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and members of the US Congress. "I chose to stand up because I realized a terrible fact: apart from Facebook itself, almost no one knows what's going on inside Facebook. In fact, Facebook's situation is better than that of any company I've seen before. Much worse." Hogan said publicly. Hogan’s real-name accusation claims that Facebook and its Instagram have long deliberately pushed content related to eating disorders, suicide, violence, etc., which has contributed to the outbreak of hatred, unrest, and rumors. Although Facebook knows that bad content will have a negative impact on society, the company has turned a deaf ear to it and put platform profits above social ethics and user safety.

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Risk in the meta-universe

Although the meta-universe is very far away, the security risks and scams related to the meta-universe have already appeared. The meta-universe, which aims to deeply integrate with the real world, naturally has the possibility of threatening the security of the real world. In Metaverse, the identity system and the economic system are the areas with the most intensive direct capital exchanges. Therefore, cyber crimes and cyber black and gray products are the first to focus here. To realize the meta-universe, we have to face these risks.