I wonder why Facebook is so afraid of transparency. I’d like to start by saying that I actually like using Facebook in 2021. I’m Danish and I’m on Facebook sol

I wonder why Facebook is so afraid of transparency. I’d like to start by saying that I actually like using Facebook in 2021. I’m Danish and I’m on Facebook solely because I play Blood Bowl and Facebook is where the majority of the community organise things. From how it operates it’s local version of the NAF rules to events for tournaments and leagues and just general chat about collecting outrageously little plastic toys. Before I started playing Blood Bowl I had quit Facebook. While Facebook is still the most popular social media in Denmark, seeing 65% of us login daily, it’s trustworthy ness is at an all time low post the COVID lockdowns. I’m 2018 more than 50% of us would use Facebook for news, by the end of 2020 that had fallen to 5%. Leading me back to me having quit Facebook, and into completely anecdotal speculation, but I quit Facebook because it didn’t have any content for me. No one in my network posts anything of real interest on Facebook and after I stopped following news media’s on Facebook and went directly to their sites instead (as well as subscribing to a physical news paper) Facebook was just boring. Until I started playing Blood Bowl. If I’m not alone in this, and only 5% of us now follow news sources on Facebook then wouldn’t that be an issue for them in the long run? Their key advantage now that people have abandoned news is hobby and group content, but Facebook only has an advantage here because all of us are on Facebook. Except young people aren’t joining Facebook. In 2018 1/4 14-18 year old Dane joined Facebook, in 2020 that has fallen to 1/10. Sure Facebook is sort of safe from disruption, but within the miniature painting communities we’re already beginning to see more and more of people not having accounts or people only having accounts for one specific purpose. Less anecdotal than that, research shows that 67% of us will use phrases like “I’m only on Facebook because x” and that it’s no longer “cool” to be on Facebook because of its bad PR. So why is Facebook afraid of transparency? Trust for SoMe in general is an all time low, but Facebook is actually one of the few networks sharing at least some of their data publicly. So why not exploit that advantage and go all the way? Especially when their image is already so terrible that people come up with excuses die being there?