It’s not about “following orders”, it’s about systems and incentives.

Even if you filter diligently, FB will randomly inject unwanted things into your timeline/news feed.

I miss the days when Facebook incentivized folks to be engaged just by getting them addicted to Farmville.

Facebook and Twitter algorithms absolutely arrange your content to increase engagement. You follow only sane people and filter toxic posts, good for you. But lots of other people follow randomly and just click on things that interest them. FB has figured out that enragement = engagement, so its algorithms favor…

I think there’s at least a better chance now than there was even five years ago. Tech doesn’t have the cozy relationship with Democrats that they did under Obama (when it was still novel for a president to win using social media). Regulators are starting to sniff around.

I actually logged into my elderly mother’s FB account and muted quite a few of her septuagenarian friends because all they did on the platform was post racist and truly awful memes about brown people, Democrats, etc. Mom actually thanked me for that. She just enjoys photos of friends’ grandkids and granddogs.

Although does it really count as engagement if half the time you can’t find the comment or response since the system works so shittily?

Further, he actually *did*. The first version of Facebook was essentially a rip-off of the site ‘hot or not’.

This has been common knowledge for at least a decade, so it should not come as a surprise to anyone. What would be genuinely surprising is if ANYTHING of consequence was done about it.

it doesn’t really matter whether Zuckerberg set out to make a hateful platform.

I know a lot of people working at Facebook in the Oculus division. They are not evil. They are good people wanting a good career; and to work on something exiting, and well funded.

Katie Harbath, Joel Kaplan, Kevin Martin 

3 Republican conservative hirees at top positions within FalseBook:

Yeah, selling deliberately hateful content to maximize profits is kind of the definition of evil.  Short of Nazi serial killer, I’d be hard-pressed to come up with a more evil action. 

I know someone who worked for Facebook on the Oculus product range. Whilst he referred to them as ‘The Great Evil’, he has an amazingly good and tolerant heart.

It kind of feels like hearing that cigarette companies knew their product caused cancer or that oil companies knew that global warming was an issue for decades while they lied and sowed doubt. The actual damage they’re doing isn’t the part of it that’s news, it’s that they were fully aware of it all along.

Don’t know what to tell you buddy. If you can’t see how much different it has been for people born in the last 30-40 years as a direct result of the social and tax policies of the generation before, you’re clearly just wanting to lean into dismissing a group of people who is working exceptionally hard to get out of a…

Well if the Boomers hadn’t aggressively fought paying basic damn taxes, unlike their parents and their grandparents, then those school loans would have been tiny (you know, like the Boomers got).  

‘Millennials in [our] home buying years,’

Guys...I don’t want to cause a panic here, but I’m *starting* to think gaming has a male toxicity problem...

Immediately when I saw the thumbnail image I straight up almost threw my phone in the air. It’s fucked up as a joke and even more so in the goddamn context.