{"id":22186,"date":"2018-11-17T10:24:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T10:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22186"},"modified":"2018-11-17T10:24:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T10:24:17","slug":"is-facebook-ruining-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22186","title":{"rendered":"Is Facebook ruining the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"79.4798206278\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/facebook.html\">Facebook<\/a> is once again under fire. This time following a report by the New York Times that claims the giant tech company hired a political consultancy firm to target opponents, in an attempt to distract from growing pressure over alleged Russian meddling in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/events\/election-2016.html\">2016 US presidential election<\/a> using Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Jaron Lanier, is a Silicon Valley pioneer, public intellectual and author of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Right Now.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the current leadership team at Facebook are the right people to run the company, he says that CEO Mark Zuckerberg should step down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it would be good for the world if he stepped aside. But the point is that there&#8217;s no mechanism for him to do so,&#8221; says Lanier about Zuckerberg. He calls Facebook a &#8220;one-man shop&#8221; without governance.<\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s headliner, Jaron Lanier also explains why he thinks social media can be dangerous and why people would be better off if they just switched off.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more, watch our web extra:\u00a0Would Donald Trump be president without Facebook?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><strong>Follow\u00a0<em>UpFront<\/em>\u00a0on Twitter<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJUpFront\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0@AJUpFront<\/a>\u00a0and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AJUpFront\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Facebook.<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is once again under fire. This time following a report by the New York Times that claims the giant tech company hired a political consultancy firm to target opponents, in an attempt to distract from growing pressure over alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election using Facebook. Jaron Lanier, is a Silicon&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}