What you see is what your friends show you. Facebook is an echo chamber in an increasingly polarized society. From what I can tell, facebook is occasionally aw

What you see is what your friends show you. Facebook is an echo chamber in an increasingly polarized society. From what I can tell, facebook is occasionally awful to everyone, about equally. It takes down posts it shouldn't, because it's not trained ethics experts deciding, it's low paid contractors/workers trying to follow guidelines for removing content and banning people in an messy world. It's just that people only hear about their friends issues with the site, because their friends are like them in outlook, and because the algorithms behind facebook that surface posts tend to prefer posts that are like other posts you clicked on. Now, it's my understanding that a fair bit of fake news was created by people looking for ad word revenue on both sides. I think FB deserves critique for allowing false news stories to spread, and it should be non partisan, because regardless of who won the election, we can all agree that false stories about the candidates didn't benefit anyone except the people getting that ad revenue, and certainly not the voting public.