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Facebook knows their audience well and is catering to it. It's social media for middle-aged conservatives, so it makes sense to advertise to them.

I don't know of a lot of young people who use the platform still, they've all gone off to TikTok or Instagram(still FB I know).

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I think the ads I always used to see before terminating my use of Facebook for Christian Mingle say otherwise.

Middle-aged conservatives buying insurrection cosplay gear is, I would say, a problem in itself that America is really unwilling to confront. The boundary between pretend and reality gets very, very thin and the ammunition purchased is live.

(It could even fall under existing restrictions on ""gangs"", if those weren't targeted at nonwhite people only!)

If they are white then we call them mafia, unless they are white and more brute, in which case we call them a mob, which is, to be fair, a word commonly used to refer to the people at the Capitol on the 6th.

> It's social media for middle-aged conservatives

Are you sure about that? When I sign on to Facebook, it appears to be social media for middle-aged liberal minded people. Facebook is a bit of a mirror in that sense.

I thought Facebook was just for memes!

It has become pretty good at only showing you things you like to counter the reputation of making you hate the people you know IRL, I suspect.

Exactly. Almost the only time I see things that I disagree strongly with is when I'm shown a comment by one of my contacts who is in a stupid fruitless argument where neither party has a chance in hell of changing the other persons mind.

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