Organizations
How companies, institutions, and movements embody the sixteen values.
Meta
Connection at infinite scale
Facebook was built on the premise that human beings want to share their lives with each other and that providing the infrastructure for that sharing is both commercially valuable and genuinely good for the world. The community value is real in its original form: early Facebook was an instrument of genuine social connection, and the billions of people who use it to maintain relationships across distance are doing something meaningful. The distortion is what happens when community-building becomes engagement-maximizing and the platform's incentives diverge from its users' wellbeing.
Meta
Connection at infinite scale
Facebook was built on the premise that human beings want to share their lives with each other and that providing the infrastructure for that sharing is both commercially valuable and genuinely good for the world. The community value is real in its original form: early Facebook was an instrument of genuine social connection, and the billions of people who use it to maintain relationships across distance are doing something meaningful. The distortion is what happens when community-building becomes engagement-maximizing and the platform's incentives diverge from its users' wellbeing.
Reconnecting people who have lost contact. Organizing community events and local groups. Coordinating disaster relief and mutual aid. WhatsApp as genuinely indispensable communication infrastructure in large parts of the world.
Algorithmic amplification of outrage because outrage drives engagement. News feed optimization that made everyone angrier and more tribal. A business model that requires keeping users on the platform regardless of what the platform is doing to them. The knowledge that the product harms adolescent mental health, internally documented.
The 2016 election and the subsequent Senate testimony - the moment the gap between 'connecting the world' and 'hosting the world's most effective misinformation distribution system' became publicly undeniable.