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Imagine unironically whistleblowing and stoking outrage that the censorship isn't enough. It is bad that the company knew that Instagram is harmful to teenager
by betwixthewires 5y ago
Imagine unironically whistleblowing and stoking outrage that the censorship isn't enough.
It is bad that the company knew that Instagram is harmful to teenagers' mental health and still marketed to them anyway. But "Facebook doesn't do enough to stop the spread of misinformation" is the most ridiculous narrative on something like this I've ever heard, and honestly I'm not surprised such a narrative got a 60 minutes special. The problems I have with Facebook are the real problems, like how it is designed to get people addicted and steal their lives from them, how Instagram is designed to instill envy so as to maximize use. These are real problems, bad problems. "Facebook isn't doing enough to prevent vaccine hesitancy" is not on anyone's radar that seriously cares about the effect Facebook is having on our societies, the only people hammering on this narrative are misdirecting at best, working a propagandistic angle most likely.
- bestcoder69 5y agoAnecdotally, all of the people I know who are addicted to FB (and they were before COVID) are also all anti-vax.
- TheFreim 5y agoAlways interesting how anecdotes go since most "anti-vax" people I know despise Facebook and other large social media platforms.
- betwixthewires 5y agoFor me it ranges. Some people are opposed to the covid vaccine mandate, some people don't want it for themselves, some people (I think only one or two) are anti vax types, some have it but don't think others should have to and some think you're evil if you disagree that everyone should have to. Precisely what information people internalize on Facebook isn't the common thread there, the common thread is that it consumes their social life and has a near monopoly on their information availability and therefore worldview. Facebook's problems go beyond what information is available on it.