Mass media in general has been profiting off rumors, gossip, and falsehoods for a long time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism https://en.m.wik

Mass media in general has been profiting off rumors, gossip, and falsehoods for a long time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism The difference here is FB is doing it algorithmically on a much larger scale.