I helped my mother fix her access to facebook and it's one of my biggest regrets in life. She leaned hard into the covid misinformation that facebook spreads, turned into a delusional anti-vaxxer, and I can't help thinking that my innocently helping her fix her account is ultimately going to lead to her death.
Never thought of it this way. So spot on. The fact is Facebook really is its own isolated and bastardized "Internet," and it's so very AOL.
Here's to the "all new" AOL!
"But at least one of the decisions was driven by Mr. Zuckerberg, and all were approved by him, three of the people said."
"Mr. Zuckerberg, who had become intertwined with policy issues including the 2020 election, also wanted to recast himself as an innovator, the people said. In January, the communications team circulated a document with a strategy for distancing Mr. Zuckerberg from scandals, partly by focusing his Facebook posts and media appearances on new products, they said."
Don't forget for a moment that Mark Zuckerberg is a monster. From the start he only cared about one thing: getting your data.
I think the amount of vaccine misinformation propagated by facebook will be the source of numerous reviews and studies in the future. It's overwhelmingly sad to see so many people die because they did not get vaccinated, presumably after being influenced by fb misinformation and cable news pundits.
As a side note, the content warnings of fb posts are almost laughable, as most include this blurb: "According to the World Heath Organization" ... as though the WHO is reputable in the eyes of those brainwashed by anti-vaccine propaganda.
No, "anti-vaxxer" is the whole term. It means "person who is against vaccination".
"-er" does not dehumanize, it characterizes. Your own example demonstrates this: "baller".
If you don't like a group of people and you want to get other people on board with hating them, just put some word_er and label them as such. it makes it much easier to garner hate for said group.
This isnt a debate, this is a known known.