I feel like treating at face value that Facebook is building things in a "responsible" manner—in the headline, even—is the opposite of journalism. If we showed

I feel like treating at face value that Facebook is building things in a "responsible" manner—in the headline, even—is the opposite of journalism. If we showed our current state to people from 10 years ago, they would be too astonished to believe the a trail of desolation this company in particular has managed in just a short few years. The two biggest threats to population of the united states right now, by my reckoning, are the looming internal threat of civil war including the associated coup attempt, and inability to properly respond to the global pandemic. I can't see any interpretation in which social media (but epecially facebook) isn't driving both of these. It is more than likely pursuing these on purpose; in each of these cases, a massive section of the population now actively rejects information about the world from almost any other source, and prioritises recruitment. Make no mistake, facebook knows this shift in zeitgeist essentially makes Facebook far more valuable, regardless of the harm and even death it is causing to Americans, let alone people in other (more often forgotten about) nations.