I'm not fan of conspiracy theories but that's where my head has been too. None of the Cambridge Analytica stuff is as bad for facebook as the media is asserting

I'm not fan of conspiracy theories but that's where my head has been too. None of the Cambridge Analytica stuff is as bad for facebook as the media is asserting, and none of the data Cambridge Analytica acquired is available anymore through public APIs. Yet the New York Times is buying ads on facebook telling people how to quit facebook... Either news orgs don't understand the real issues (totally a possibility) or are using this moment of weakness to wrest some control back from facebook after facebook's blatant land grabs throughout the last decade. I recall seeing editorials in the past (not NYT) about how facebook is kicking the feet out from under content producers by making facebook the only viable source for content. Producers began promoting their content through FB to reach a wider audience, but the audience has grown in a walled garden and now facebook has total control over what content is shown and what isn't, so are now charging producers to promote their own content. And fake news is prominent throughout social media. I can see why news organizations would want to fight both of those things. Feels pretty underhanded if that's what they're doing today though.