It’s just a judgement call. Something I thought seemed obvious to most people, but perhaps not so obvious.
As I noted below, my epistemic basis is only that when he first started spouting that “everything should be social” stuff it looked like he was just mouthing the words.
Still, according to Encyclopedia Britannica
it began at Harvard University in 2003 as Facemash, an online service for students to judge the attractiveness of their fellow students.
So it’s pretty clear that the founding was not a grand prosocial vision. Whether the later talk was ‘greenwashing’ or ‘realization that actually this can do lots of good’ is perhaps less clear-cut.
It’s just a judgement call. Something I thought seemed obvious to most people, but perhaps not so obvious.
As I noted below, my epistemic basis is only that when he first started spouting that “everything should be social” stuff it looked like he was just mouthing the words.
Still, according to Encyclopedia Britannica
So it’s pretty clear that the founding was not a grand prosocial vision. Whether the later talk was ‘greenwashing’ or ‘realization that actually this can do lots of good’ is perhaps less clear-cut.