A former advisor to Steve Jobs warns that Facebook is "destroying the very fabric of human relationships" by making its users become addicted to anger.

During a question and answer session at the 2020 CogX conference, Joanna Hoffman was asked about the cult of leadership within Silicon Valley.

"As I look at Facebook, for example, I keep thinking are they really that ignorant or is this motivated by something … darker than what appears?" she said.

Hoffman went on to accuse Facebook of "destroying the very fabric of democracy, destroying the very fabric of human relationships and peddling in an addictive drug called anger."

"You know it's just like tobacco, it's no different than the opioids," she added. "We know anger is addictive, we know we can attract people to our platform and get engagement if we get them pissed off enough. So therefore what, we should capitalize on that each and every time?"

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While Hoffman was talking about Facebook, much of the same charges could be made against Twitter.

Twitter has become a monstrous echo chamber of hysterical nonsense controlled by outrage mobs who abuse the platform to threaten criminal acts as well as intimidating, doxxing and attempting to ruin people's lives for the sin of holding an alternate opinion.

Much criticism of social media is framed in the context of its "threat to democracy," despite the fact that both Twitter and Facebook are more censorious than ever, with the overwhelming target being conservatives and anyone who offends woke jihadists.

In reality, the real damage being done by these platforms is to people's mental health, to the cohesion of a functioning society, and to the concept of free speech itself.