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乔布斯从前的心腹公开炮轰脸书  

Steve Jobs's former right-hand woman
Joanna Hoffman
who has been in the eye of Silicon Valley long enough to see multiple generations of geniuses exerting their whim over technology—and thus
society—has unleashed a scathing attack on Facebook and its CEO
Mark Zuckerberg.
For decades Hoffman was one of Steve Jobs's most trusted confidants. She joined Apple in 1980 as the fifth person on the Macintosh team and was highly regarded by Jobs for her skills in product marketing. She even left Apple and joined Jobs at Next when he was forced from the pany. But while Hoffman has been revered in tech circles for decades
her name only became more mon to people outside the industry thanks to the Steve Jobs movie in which she was portrayed by actor Kate Winslet.
But in a recent talk
Hoffman turned her focus from reflecting on her work with Apple and Jobs in the 20th century and shifted to not mincing words about one of the most powerful tech panies in the 21st century. As CNBC reports
responding to a question at the 2020 CogX conference about the cult of leadership in technology and the resulting egos from those that head world-changing panies
Hoffman wondered if some of today's leaders are "motivated by something ... darker than what appears."
但在最近的访谈中，Hoffman不再评说20世纪她在苹果的工作和与乔布斯共事的情况，转而直言不讳地谈论21世纪最有实力的科技公司之一。美国消费者新闻与商业频道报道，Hoffman在2020年CogX会议上，在回答关于对技术领袖的崇拜，以及由此产生的改变世界的公司领导者的自我意识的问题时，她好奇现在的某些领导者是否是受了“比表面看来更黑暗的东西所激励”。
She specifically called out Facebook
in light of the misinformation and strife the pany's platform seems to thrive on. Hoffman argued there were elements of Facebook that are "destroying the very fabric of democracy
destroying the very fabric of human relationships
and peddling in an addictive drug called anger." She went on to liken Facebook to a drug dealer
saying:
You know it's just like tobacco
it's no different than the opioids. We know anger is addictive
we know we can attract people to our platform and get engagement if we get them p—-d off enough. So therefore what
we should capitalize on that each and every time?
Of course
Hoffman isn't alone in her assertion that Facebook is an enabler of harmful tendencies
much like drug dealers. In recent years
executives from Facebook's past have argued the very same.