{"id":100,"date":"2026-02-21T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burnterra.ca\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2026-02-22T01:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:05:42","slug":"evils-of-meta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/burnterra.ca\/index.php\/evils-of-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Evils of Meta (Instagram,Facebook,Whatsapp)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"660\"><strong><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Meta Platforms<\/span><\/span> has built a business empire on surveillance disguised as \u201cconnection.\u201d Through <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Facebook<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Instagram<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">WhatsApp<\/span><\/span>, and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Oculus<\/span><\/span>, it relentlessly harvests behavioral data\u2014what you click, who you talk to, where you go, what you linger on, even how long your thumb pauses on a post. Every interaction is tracked, profiled, and fed into algorithms designed to predict and shape your behavior. You are not the customer; you are the product. Your attention is packaged and sold to advertisers with unnerving precision.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-start=\"662\" data-end=\"1250\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><strong>The company\u2019s track record shows the cost of this model: opaque algorithms that amplify outrage because it keeps people hooked, lax oversight that enabled scandals like <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Cambridge Analytica<\/span><\/span>, and systems that reward misinformation because controversy drives engagement. The goal isn\u2019t truth, well-being, or social cohesion\u2014it\u2019s growth, ad revenue, and dominance. The manipulation isn\u2019t accidental; it\u2019s engineered into the design. The platforms are optimized to exploit human psychology at scale, shaping public opinion while publicly pretending to just be \u201cneutral\u201d tech.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta Platforms has built a business empire on surveillance disguised as \u201cconnection.\u201d Through Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus, it relentlessly harvests behavioral data\u2014what you click, who you talk to, where you go, what you linger on, even how long your thumb pauses on a post. Every interaction is tracked, profiled, and fed into algorithms designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnterra.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnterra.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnterra.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnterra.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnterra.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/burnterra.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"https:\/\/burnterra.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnterra.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}