It was founded as a tool for bringing the world together, for building community and bridging divides.
More than two decades later, however, one of Facebook’s pioneers has admitted that he and Mark Zuckerberg, its co-founder and chief executive, created a monster by knowingly “exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology”.
“God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains,” Sean Parker said. Now 37, he became president of Facebook when it was five months old, and played a pivotal role in transforming it from a college project into a multibillion-dollar business with two billion monthly users.
Saying he had become “something of a conscientious objector” to social media, Mr Parker said that, although it was designed deliberately to draw people in and keep them
