It's not shocking. FB reported (as reported here and other places) at least more than a year ago that the most effective way to increase engagement was to spew

It's not shocking. FB reported (as reported here and other places) at least more than a year ago that the most effective way to increase engagement was to spew racist hate. For that reason, they claimed, they made only minor changes. What is disturbing to me is that FB pretends not to be a "publisher" to earn safe-harbor status but clearly is seen here to push one narrative over another. That should make them ineligible for safe harbor status. Perhaps the most devastating news to come out was an aside in the WSJ investigation, where they quoted an anonymous 11 year-old boy, who said, "Facebook is for old people." If he is right--and it is obvious that he is--FB will join print media in a slow, demographic decline. FB will joint MySpace in the irrelevancy archives because of this demographic decline.