People do have a herd mentality but that doesn't argue against the influence of Facebook but for it. In a world of personalized algorithms, A-B testing, nudgin

People do have a herd mentality but that doesn't argue against the influence of Facebook but for it. In a world of personalized algorithms, A-B testing, nudging, etc, that Facebook and how it works certain having a significant effect on people who use it on an aggregate level is fairly obviously. Just because people have an inclination towards something negative doesn't mean a tool that enables it is blameless. As a thought experiment: If people are inherently somewhat violent, would someone who gave everyone a gun not be influential in what happened after?