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Chamath Palihapitiya now works as a venture capitalist at Social+Capital Partnership (Photo: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Facebook is \u2018programming\u2019 its users and \u2018ripping apart the social fabric\u2019 of society, a former exec has warned.<\/p>\n

Chamath Palihapitiya, who worked as vice president of user growth, said he was riven with \u2018guilt\u2019 for his role in helping Facebook to attract two billion users.<\/p>\n

He is one of several dissenting voices who has spoken out against the all-pervasive social network recently.<\/p>\n

In November Sean Parker, whose early stake in Facebook turned him into a billionaire, said the site exploited \u2018a vulnerability in human psychology\u2019.<\/p>\n

Then an early Facebook investor called Roger McNamee compared the social network to Nazi propaganda and said it uses the same methods to those employed by propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.<\/a><\/p>\n

Palihapitiya was taking part in an event at the Stanford Graduate School of Business last month when he issued an astonishing broadside against his former employer.<\/p>\n