Sean Parker made billions off of Facebook. Today he basically called it evil.

You always hurt the ones you love, right?

That's the only way we can explain Facebook's founding president Sean Parker's damning words about the world's largest social media platform.

Speaking to Axios at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Parker selected the angry reaction and unloaded on Facebook, describing it as "exactly the kind of thing a hacker like my self would come up with because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology."

Parker, who left Facebook in 2005 and has has had his share of tech flops, said that when they were first building the social media platform, the goal was clear: "How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?" Read more...