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Originally Posted by Guybrush
the fb papers also showed how fb to a very large extent knows all this and are happy with the revenue it generates. They know content on fb is used to supercharge conflicts like in Myanmar or violence against minorities. They know Instagram puts various negative pressures on young people that in turn increases the risk of things like suicide or eating disorders.
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This this and this. Plus the Cambridge Analytica scandal is what convinced me to delete my Facebook around 2016 or 2017. The algorithm is very unethical, by my standards at least. Facebook continues to violate the trust of its users and they're, as you pointed out in different ways, definitely not an agent of benevolence of positivity in the world. It's about nothing but $$$.
It's absolutely ridiculous that so many young teenagers are all over these apps these days. I swear, parents these days gives their kids a cellphone before they've gone through puberty. Used responsibly, these platforms/apps like most things probably aren't all that bad. It all comes down to how they're used. But many young teenagers today definitely don't have a healthy relationship with these things.