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- Jews in tech: Who’s actually behind platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc
- Engineering addiction: How psychology and behavioral science were used to make these platforms addictive on purpose
- Why Jewish presence in these industries is so strong—historically, culturally, structurally
- Systemic influence: How it all fits into a bigger picture of media, tech, and how your brain gets farmed for clicks
Many of the most influential names behind the platforms that define digital life today—Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Reddit, and more—have Jewish backgrounds. This isn’t speculation; it’s verifiable through public biographies and company histories. The role played was not only in founding and investing, but also in shaping how these systems manipulate human behavior through attention and reward cycles.A non-exhaustive list of notable figures includes:
- Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook/Meta (Co-founder, CEO)): born in 1984 in New York to a Reform Jewish family
- Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook (Co-founder, CTO)): Moskovitz is Jewish
- Eduardo Saverin (Facebook (Co-founder, CFO)) was born in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, to a wealthy Jewish Brazilian family
- Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook/Meta (COO 2008–2022)): was born in Washington DC to a Jewish family
- Larry Page (Google (Co-founder)): born to a Jewish mother
- Evan Spiegel (Snapchat (Co-founder, CEO)): At 22, a Jewish student drops out of his Ivy League school to turn his social media idea into a business
- Jan Koum (WhatsApp (Co-founder, CEO)): Ukrainian-born Jew
- Susan Wojcicki (YouTube (CEO 2014–2023)): Jewish heritage
- Adam Mosseri (Instagram (Head of Instagram): Of Jewish descent (Egyptian-Jewish family)
- Sergey Brin (Google/YouTube (Co-founder Google)): Russian-Jewish immigrant
- Sean Rad (Tinder (Co-founder, CEO)): Comes from an Iranian-Jewish family
- Sam Altman (OpenAI (CEO)): Grew up in a Jewish family
- Alexis Ohanian (Reddit (Co-founder)): Has Jewish heritage from his mother
- Max Levchin (PayPal, Affirm (Co-founder of PayPal, CEO of Affirm)): Ukrainian-born Jew
- Elon Musk (X/Twitter (Owner)): Maybe ?
For more:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_businesspeople_in_media
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_American_businesspeople
That’s a consistent pattern: founders, leaders, backers. Jewish innovators have played a major role in shaping how social media works. Not just in building the platforms, but in understanding how to hook users, monetize attention, and scale behavior-driven networks. You use these apps every day. Now you know who helped make them addictive.
These apps didn’t blow up by accident. Social media was engineered to be addictive on purpose. The people behind it didn’t just build platforms, they built systems that mess with your head. Behavioral science, dopamine loops, FOMO, it’s all baked in.
Facebook is the prime example. Sean Parker straight up admitted it, they knew they were exploiting “a vulnerability in human psychology” from day one. Their goal? “How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?” That’s a direct quote. Features like the “Like” button weren’t about user expression. They were about dopamine. One small hit every time someone taps your post. Same brain circuitry as slot machines. Endless scroll is not an accident, notifications are Intermittent reinforcement, tgaging triggers social validation. It’s habit-forming architecture. And yeah, Facebook even ran live experiments without telling users. In 2012 they tweaked the feeds of 689,000 users just to test emotional contagion. They found that moods could spread like viruses through the timeline. They didn’t just observe behavior, they manipulated it... and everyone forget about this.
Snapchat came in with a different angle. Evan Spiegel’s play was FOMO. Messages disappear. You miss them, they’re gone. Better open fast. Then they dropped Snapstreaks which is pure psychology. Now teens are logging in daily just to keep the streak alive. Why? Because the reward isn’t the content, it’s the number. The streak. That’s how deep the brain-hacking goes. What we’re seeing here isn’t random success. It’s deliberate, strategic use of psychological mechanics. Some of it comes from places like Stanford’s Persuasive Tech Lab. Other parts come from people like Nir Eyal, who literally wrote the playbook Hooked, all about using triggers, variable rewards, and habit loops to make users addicted to products. And guess what? The product teams at Facebook, Instagram, and other top apps soaked up all of it. Even if not every one of these behavioral scientists is Jewish, the companies that deployed their tacticssuch as Meta, Snap, etc. were often led or shaped by Jewish innovators who knew exactly what they were doing. They took the tools and scaled them into billion-user networks.
And now? You’re the product lol. Your time, your attention, your behavior, all optimized for engagement. These platforms weren’t designed for connection. They were designed for compulsion. And a big part of that was psychology, neuroscience, and behavior science turned into code, A/B tests, and infinite scroll. That’s the real engine behind modern social media. Not just tech. Mind control
Behind the scenes, Jewish entrepreneurs have played a major role here too just like they did in social media. Doesn’t matter if it’s old-school print, VHS, or modern-day platforms like OnlyFans and Pornhub. The pattern’s the same: vision, risk-taking, execution.
Pornhub, MyFreeCams, and OnlyFans are run by Jewish entrepreneurs. Read about Reuben Sturman or Al Goldstein, or even Epstein lol. -- "The porn industry was pretty much created by Jews and even today some of the major companies are owned by Jews... Steven Hirsch of Vivid, Steve Orenstein of Wicked Pictures. The man whose legal case legitimized the industry--Hal Freeman was another. And so many others. Jewish performers, writers"
Back in the 60s and 70s, this industry wasn’t polished. It was underground. Taboo. But that didn’t stop guys like Reuben Sturman and Al Goldstein. Sturman, Cleveland-born son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, turned porn into a nationwide business. He didn’t see it as some deep moral issue. His words: "I was a businessman," said Sturman once imprisoned, blandly explaining his activities, "I didn't see[pornography] as good. I didn't see it as bad. It was a product to be sold." Then you’ve got Goldstein the Jewish King of Porn. Loud, unapologetic, and probably the first to say "screw it" and put hardcore in the mainstream. He launched Screw Magazine in ‘68, called it “utterly tasteless,” and owned that label. He also took it to TV with Midnight Blue, a public-access show that bulldozed censorship. Free speech and profit. That was the game. Fast forward to the ‘80s and beyond, porn went pro. Steven Hirsch took the reins with Vivid Entertainment. His studio wasn’t grimy, it was polished, organized, and distribution-heavy. Think porn meets Hollywood
. Clean branding, big budgets, celebrity tapes, and shelf space in regular video stores. Vivid brought adult content from the margins into pop culture. Then came the internet and things changed again. Now it wasn’t just about making content. It was about how you delivered it. Enter Noel Biderman, a Toronto-born grandson of Holocaust survivors. Built Ashley Madison, a site that wasn’t porn but definitely adult. His hook? Infidelity. And it worked. The guy scaled a taboo into a global network, built off curiosity, secrecy, and raw psychology. Until the hack happened. Another major player, Leonid Radvinsky. Ukrainian-Jewish investor. Quiet profile, but massive moves. Owned MyFreeCams, then bought a majority stake in OnlyFans in 2018. What happened next? Everyone and their dog knows what OnlyFans is now. He turned it into a billion-dollar beast. Blended social media UX with adult monetization. Smart. Cold. Effective. Jewish. In 2023, MindGeek (Pornhub’s parent) got acquired by a Canadian firm called Ethical Capital Partners. At the front? Solomon Friedman. Yes, he’s a lawyer. But also an ordained Orthodox rabbi. Now he’s CEO of the company behind Pornhub, YouPorn, and Brazzers. What’s he doing? Talking openly about reform. Content moderation, compliance, industry image. He’s not denying what the platform is, he’s just trying to make it sustainable in the current landscape.Same game but different industry. Just like social media, modern porn platforms run on brain science. Not by accident but by design. These companies know exactly how the brain responds to sexual content, and they use that knowledge to keep you watching, clicking, and spending. If anything, adult sites take it even further because they’re tapping into the most primal reward circuit in the brain: SEX.
Adult platforms are engineered for compulsive engagement using neuroscience and behavioral economics. And just like in social media, Jewish innovators weren’t just participants, they were architects. They figured out what makes people click, and they turned that into billion-dollar systems.
Let’s start with the Coolidge effect. It’s basic biology where males lose interest in the same partner over time but show renewed interest when a new one appears. Dopamine spikes. The brain goes, “something new, go after it.” Porn sites exploit this hard. It's the same fucking thing. That’s why there’s endless categories, thumbnails, and constant novelty. One image gets boring? Don’t worry there are 10 million more. Just check this out: “The brain produces less ‘go after it’ dopamine [after one image] and hunts for new opportunities.”. Pornhub entire model is built around this. The thumbnails, the suggestions, the endless scroll, it. is. not. random. It’s engineered to feed the user novelty, every single session. And the results speak for themselves: average visit time on Pornhub is 10 minutes, which is insane by internet standards. The brain gets a hit from every new clip. Algorithms track what you watch, then push related or more extreme content. Just like YouTube but for sex. They’re literally guiding you down psychological “rabbit holes” tailored to your arousal triggers. And it’s not just videos, it’s gamified systems. Live cam sites (like the ones Leonid Radvinsky built early on) use tip counters, badges, leaderboards. Viewers compete, spend more, feel “seen.” OnlyFans does it a different way: parasocial attachment. Creators DM you, send custom clips, respond to your name. It feels personal, even though it’s transactional. That’s not accidental. That’s attachment psychology in action. It’s textbook behavioral economics. Just like how social media tricks you into staying online longer, adult content tricks you into thinking this next video will be the one.
This isn’t just “porn.” It’s neuroscience. And yeah there’s a conversation around compulsivity and addiction. Some studies show that heavy users develop brain patterns similar to substance addicts desensitization to regular pleasure, overreaction to porn cues. It’s not just about getting off. It’s about chasing a feeling that keeps getting harder to reach. Like pulling a slot machine lever waiting for that one perfect clip. And the platforms know. They’re built around that chase. The entire user interface, from autoplay, to suggested categories, to endless swipe, is intermittent reinforcement. It keeps you on the hook. Just like Facebook hired behavioral scientists to boost retention, companies like MindGeek (Pornhub’s parent) hire data analysts, A/B testers, UX designers, all with one goal: keep users engaged. Longer sessions. Higher spend. More conversion. They analyze metrics like session length, click-through rates on suggested videos, and conversion to premium memberships, all of which tie back to how effectively they satisfy and then renew user desire. Behavioral economics also comes into play on pay sites: offering free teaser content to trigger the appetite (the foot-in-the-door technique), then using the user’s arousal state to upsell subscriptions or paid clips (counting on reduced impulse control when excited). It’s a business model designed around your dopamine response.
From a broader neuroscience perspective, both social media and porn hijack the brain’s dopamine system. Jewish innovators and execs in this space like Radvinsky, Friedman, others weren’t just running platforms but they did understood the psychology and used it to build repeatable systems. It’s not just tech, it’s tech tied to biology. OnlyFans took a social interaction model and merged it with adult content. MindGeek turned Pornhub into one of the top 10 most visited websites on the entire internet in 2023. That’s more traffic than Twitter. And now, with Solomon Friedman stepping in as CEO (the Orthodox Jewish lawyer and now head of Pornhub), we’re seeing the narrative shift again. Less rebellion, more "responsibility." He’s talking about content moderation, ethics, public image but the engine underneath still runs on the same psychological code.
Now comes the best part : Why are there so many Jewish founders and execs in social media and adult entertainment? Is it just a coincidence like we all like to say or is there actual context behind the pattern? Guess what, it’s not random. It’s history, strategy, and positioning.
Jews move early in new industries and this isn’t the first time. Look back at Hollywood. The early 1900s film industry was wide open, no real gatekeepers, no old money. Gentile elites didn’t care for it yet. Jewish immigrants took the chance. Zukor (Paramount), Laemmle (Universal), Mayer (MGM), the Warner brothers—nearly every major studio was started by Eastern European Jews. They didn’t choose film because it was glamorous. They chose it because it wasn’t (yet). Same thing happened later with porn. It was risky, looked down on, but there were no quotas, no gatekeeping, no exclusion. That meant opportunity. Jewish outsiders had a pattern: when the mainstream shut them out, they went where no one else wanted to go, and built empires. “When other industries wouldn’t take them, this one welcomed them.” Porn followed the same logic. Legal gray zones, social taboos, low competition. If you had balls and business sense, you could dominate. Guys like Sturman and Goldstein stepped in and did exactly that.
They think that culture of education + science = tech domination. Jewish culture prioritizes education. Academics, logic, and scientific achievement are baked in from day one. By the late 20th century, Jews were massively overrepresented in medicine, law, engineering, and yeah, tech. Look it up. Zuckerberg grew up learning to code early. Brin's arents were soviet scientists who escaped antisemitism. Koum the ukrainian immigrant, grew up poor, but made WhatsApp. Spiegel, Stanford, First-gen, built Snapchat. Wake up. These aren’t one-offs. The culture pushed them into high-skill fields. Then they built networks: elite schools, top investors, insider mentorship. Harvard dorm-room startups don’t scale to billion-dollar companies without that backing and that backing often included Jewish VC firms or mentors who knew the grind. “Zuckerberg became a symbol of Jewish entrepreneurial success in tech.”: Once a few big names popped off, others followed. Role models matter. The message was clear: this is where you can win.
Plus, being an outsider isn’t just a label, it’s a mindset. If you grow up in a world that pushes you out, you start to think differently. You stop caring about rules that were never built for you in the first place. This shows up in both camps: tech nerds who dropped out of Ivy League schools to build empires and porn moguls who laughed at obscenity laws and pushed adult content into the mainstream, it's the same energy and pattern. Risk-takers. Builders. People who aren’t afraid to piss off polite society. And that mindset isn’t accidental. Jewish tradition is full of questioning authority, talmudic debate, constant argument, back-and-forth logic. Add immigrant hustle and you’ve got a formula that doesn’t fold under pressure.
And let’s be real man. Networking helps. A lot. A fuck lot. Jewish entrepreneurs don’t operate in a vacuum. They help each other, invest in each other, mentor each other. Whether it’s student associations, tech circles, or Hollywood-style partnerships, it’s not centralized, but it’s connected. Look at Israel for example. It’s literally branded the “Startup Nation.” Tight-knit units from the IDF turned into tech incubators. Global reach. Apps like Waze and ICQ didn’t come from nowhere. Same in the US, Jewish-run studios like Vivid helped open doors for others like Lansky in the adult space. Not a conspiracy or a master plan. Just a community of people who recognize talent and help each other out.
One of the core reasons Jews built their own industries is simple: they had to. You know, Navigating prejudice = survival strategy. Anti-Jewish hiring bias was real. From Ford’s factories to big banks, Jews weren’t welcome. So they built their own paths. Opened shops. Started labels. Entered any field where the door wasn’t locked. By the mid-20th century, when those barriers finally cracked, Jews already had the skills and experience to take over. In media. In tech. In business. And ironically, porn was one of the few fields where Jews and non-Jews got the same treatment which is moral condemnation. No one got a free pass. So if you were already used to being an outsider, that social stigma didn’t hit the same. You pushed forward. You built anyway. Some Jewish pornographers even saw it as a middle finger to the same puritanism that excluded their families decades earlier. Not everyone thought that way, but I guess it’s part of the backdrop.
So there’s no mystery. Jewish overrepresentation in tech and adult media isn’t some plot—it’s a mix of timing, culture, and survival. These industries were open when others weren’t. They rewarded brains, guts, and risk. Jewish entrepreneurs—shut out from old-money systems—ran toward those spaces. And they built systems that scaled. Now that those industries are global, you see more diversity. But the early foundation? Still heavy with Jewish fingerprints. The legacy is there. This isn’t about stereotyping. It’s about patterns. Strategy. And real-world context. Call it what it is: hustle that turned into influence.
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What we’ve been looking at (social media, adult platforms, user behavior) it’s all part of a bigger trend. Doesn’t matter if it’s Facebook or Pornhub. They’re playing the same game. Fighting for the same thing: Your attention. "if the service is free, then you are the product". Everything’s about time-on-platform. That’s the currency. Whether it’s a news feed or a porn feed, the goal is simple: keep you hooked. And the tactics? All the same. Infinite scroll, recommended videos, autoplay, push notifications. Doesn’t matter what the content is. The psychological mechanics are identical. Social media pioneered it. Facebook figured out how to monetize your brain through ads. Porn sites followed the model. Even “free” porn is ad-supported now. You’re not paying with money, you’re paying with attention. And the science behind it? Dopamine-driven design. Habit loops. Intermittent rewards. Same principles that casinos run on. Except now it’s in your pocket 24/7. Lawmakers are finally starting to catch on. Social media CEOs are getting grilled over addictiveness and kids' mental health. And there’s rising talk about porn addiction being a public health issue. These platforms went too far, and now they’re being called out. People like Zuckerberg and Solomon Friedman are caught in the middle. They helped build these systems and now they’re expected to clean them up.
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Morality always shifts. Same cycle different medium. Movies in the 1930s moral panic.: “Hollywood is corrupting America.” So they created the Production Code. Social media in the 2010s, same thing. First it was praised for “connecting the world.” Then came backlash—misinfo, mental health issues, online rage. Porn, was once criminal. Now it’s a billion-dollar industry trying to regulate itself. Same script, different players. Zuck spends half his time now trying to manage content, misinformation, and mental health fallout. Pornhub’s new execs are pushing “ethics,” verification, and cleanup. It’s all part of the media life cycle: shock to success to regulation to normalization.
And now something that no one talks about: Adult contents drives tech. This part is huge but mostly ignored.. Adult content isn’t just riding tech trends but it’s pushing them. VHS beat Betamax because of porn, online porn funded early streaming tech, webcam sites helped build real-time payment systems. Subscription models? Gamification? Adult content did it first OnlyFans didn’t invent anything new, it just applied what already worked. Jewish entrepreneurs in this space (from VHS to livestreams) saw where tech was going and moved early. Even mainstream companies quietly benefited. You think Youtube’s video backend didn’t learn from adult streaming? Come on think again. Social + Adult = Same Tactics Now. Look at OnlyFans. Feels like a social app. Likes, DMs, comments, custom content but it’s adult. Look at Twitter (or X whatever). It allowed porn for years. Some creators literally used it as a soft-promo tool. The lines are gone. The mechanics are the same: To hook users with content, build parasocial bonds, monetize emotional connection and use data to refine the cycle. Whether it's Meta exploring VR and the metaverse, or ex-porn industry devs building “ethical sextech,” it’s the same people, same psychology
.So...
You’ve seen the names. You’ve seen the patterns. From Facebook to Pornhub, from dopamine farming to digital lust economies, Jewish entrepreneurs have been at the center of some of the most powerful and behavior-shaping systems of the modern internet. It’s the Jews. That’s not a meme. That’s reality.
And no, for the pro-israeli or pro-jew out here, this isn’t about “blaming” anyone. This is about naming influence where it actually exists. Because if any other group was this dominant in two industries that literally reprogram the human brain, people would be asking questions. Hell, they’d be shouting from rooftops. But when it’s Jews? You’re told to shut up, look the other way, or worse, labeled something you’re not for even noticing (Thanks to the austrian painter). But we should notice. Because this isn’t just about talent or hustle. This is about systems that were deliberately designed (by brilliant minds, yes ok) but designed all the same to hijack your psychology. These weren’t neutral platforms. They weren’t built to empower humanity. They were built to monetize your time, your attention, your impulses, and even your loneliness for clout. And those blueprints? Again and again, they trace back to Jewish hands. From Zuckerberg to Radvinsky, from Spiegel to Goldstein, from social graphs to cam girl economics, it’s the jews. I'm not saying that because they’re evil (Yes, they are actually). Not because of some fantasy “faction.” But because, historically, they moved first. Because when they were locked out of elite institutions, they built their own. Because Jewish culture trained its people to study, to question, to strategize and when they saw untapped frontiers (Hollywood, porn, Silicon Valley), they moved in before anyone else. And that’s what their power comes from: knowing how to see the future, then shaping it before anyone realizes what you’re doing. So here we are. Living in a world shaped by the same patterns. Scrolling feeds coded by Jewish engineers. Watching content streamed by Jewish-owned platforms. Reacting to algorithms refined by behavioral science, deployed by Jewish-led companies.
So yeah...
It’s the jews.
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