Mark Zuckerberg apologizes for Facebook making life worse
To mark the end of Yom Kippur, Mark Zuckerberg has shared a brief post on Facebook asking for forgiveness from anyone he may have hurt in the past year. That’s a pretty standard thing to say when reflecting on mistakes during a particularly holy day, but Zuckerberg then made a surprising addition by also seeking forgiveness for any of the ways that his work has been “used to divide people rather than bring us together.” In other words, he’s apologizing for the ways that Facebook has made our lives worse, which is a wholly surprising admission of guilt from someone in the tech world. Usually, it’s mankind that fails to recognize the way that a juice machine or whatever can improve our stupid lives, so for someone like Zuckerberg to step forward and admit that maybe the thing he made might have been a terrible mistake is a pretty bold move.