{"id":17244,"date":"2019-01-20T13:10:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T19:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17244"},"modified":"2019-01-20T13:10:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T19:10:37","slug":"i-mentored-mark-zuckerberg-i-loved-facebook-but-i-cant-stay-silent-about-whats-happening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17244","title":{"rendered":"I Mentored Mark Zuckerberg. I Loved Facebook. But I Can&#8217;t Stay Silent About What&#8217;s Happening."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8216;In the world of growth hacking, users are a metric, not people. Every action a user took gave Facebook a better understanding of that user\u2013and of that user\u2019s friends\u2013enabling the company to make tiny \u201cimprovements\u201d in the user experience every day, which is to say it got better at manipulating the attention of users. Any advertiser could buy access to that attention. The Russians took full advantage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5505441\/mark-zuckerberg-mentor-facebook-downfall\/\">I Mentored Mark Zuckerberg. I Loved Facebook. But I Can&#8217;t Stay Silent About What&#8217;s Happening.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;In the world of growth hacking, users are a metric, not people. Every action a user took gave Facebook a better understanding of that user\u2013and of that user\u2019s friends\u2013enabling the company to make tiny \u201cimprovements\u201d in the user experience every &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17244\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1091],"tags":[553,187,102,455],"class_list":["post-17244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-data-mining","tag-facebook","tag-hacking","tag-social-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17245,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244\/revisions\/17245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}