I can highly recommend the book "Carless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams if you want to know just how bad it really is/was. Just remember that this is just one side of the story. Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg (no longer at Meta) probably have a different story.
Safe to assume anything Zuckberg says in relation to his actions being positive are either an outright lie or so inflated by his arrogance, greed and ego that it's completely unreliable information (still a lie)
(per Cory Doctorow)
But facebook is like, you know what, I think you should read this scummy post.
Absolute trash place.
The other stuff it recommends from strangers tends to be moronic, or tries to be emotionally manipulative in some way.
Complete brainrot.
Twitter might be full of politically dubious [1] and worse-than-Temu/Wish/etc sponsored posts, but at least it can still default to the "You follow" screen.
It really is a shame. Past the obvious privacy issues, having somewhere you could engage with your people online was genuinely nice. I miss early Facebook.
Before that it was Top Stories/Most Recent
But of course... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719
Could it be an algorithm optimizing some badly designed metrics, like "the engagement of active users"? Where making an user inactive also makes the line go up.
On the other hand my mother claims she doesn't get any ragebait.
This is economist.com but I've seen local news outlet going with similar headline, portraying the trial as a "must-see" show.
"The Facebook Files" - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039
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