At least for me, a big part of my problem with Facebook is both its size and blatant ethical breaches. Obviously most large social networks are guilty of similar problems, but Facebook jump out at me as bad because of how they use information to manipulate people's emotions to increase ad revenue.

Just look at how they realized that misinformation upset people which in turn caused them to interact with the site more, so they allowed that misinformation to spread.

There is also past research that involved trying to manipulate the emotions of users without the user's consent (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470161155995...).

They take a lot of the things that I dislike about social networks and technology and turn it to 11.

Facebook's algorithm prioritizes divisive political content that is commonly disinformation(propaganda) because they figured out it increases engagement.

What other social media platforms?

Bezos and Jassey, Jobs and Cook, Page and Pichai, Gates and Nadella, (((Zuckerberg))) and (((Sandberg))).

I’m not sure it is. If this was Twitter I’m sure the reaction would be similar. Besides those two, all other social media companies are either much smaller or in a weird category where people consider them separate (I.e Reddit)

More reviled than their big tech contemporaries too. Amazon, Apple, Google.

Snapchat, Pinterest, Discord (sort of), Youtube (sort of) can round out that social media sites list. Probably a few more not being thought of.

Because making even two pebbles fight is their business model.

Simply because the average reader of *Hacker News* knows more about the tech industry than the average user of social media platforms.

Because last week's Apple revulsion ran its course. This week it is Facebook's turn.

We'll circle back to Google next week, and repeat.

Plain and simple: populism.

It's the political equivalent of "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". It's the safest opinion you can have, so everyone will spout out without reserve because no one will challenge you on it, and if they do they're clearly just a Zuck bootlicker.