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by mrweasel 692 days ago
They care a great deal about the output, but their priorities and goals are very different from that of their users.

The same holds true for Google. It's not that Facebook could design and build social networking sites that aren't terrible for the health or their users and society, or that Google could build a better search engine/search engine UI. They absolutely can, but that's less profitable.