Facebook is clapping back at claims from one of its former executives that social media is ruining society.

In a statement to PCMag on Tuesday, a Facebook spokesperson said the executive—its former VP of User Growth Chamath Palihapitiya—has not worked for the company in more than half a decade, and argued that a lot has changed in a positive way since then.

"Chamath has not been at Facebook for over 6 years," the spokesperson wrote. "When Chamath was at Facebook we were focused on building new social media experiences and growing Facebook around the world. Facebook was a very different company back then, and as we have grown, we have realized how our responsibilities have grown too."

Facebook went on to say that it has become a more socially conscious company in recent years.

"We take our role very seriously and we are working hard to improve," the company wrote. "We've done a lot of work and research with outside experts and academics to understand the effects of our service on well-being, and we're using it to inform our product development. We are also making significant investments more in people, technology and processes, and—as Mark Zuckerberg said on the last earnings call—we are willing to reduce our profitability to make sure the right investments are made."

Facebook's statement comes after Palihapitiya last month said social media is corroding society and allows bad actors to "manipulate large swaths of people." Check out the video below to hear what he said.

"It literally is [at] a point now where I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works," Palihapitiya said during an interview at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. "That is truly where we are."

Compounding the problem, he says, is that people curate their lives to make them appear perfect in order to be rewarded with dopamine hits in the form of likes and hearts.

The former Facebook executive said he personally doesn't use social media anymore, and hasn't for years. He believes it's still possible to get the problem under control before it further destroys society.

"People need to hard break from some of these tools," he said. "The short-term dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works. No civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. It's not an American problem; this is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem."

Palihapitiya went on to say that: "We are in a really bad state of affairs right now. [Social media] is corroding the core foundations of how people behave by and between each other."