Some food for thought: As much as correlation != causation(in regards to the spike in traffic), I've witnessed so many people taking any Facebook post as the ul

Some food for thought: As much as correlation != causation(in regards to the spike in traffic), I've witnessed so many people taking any Facebook post as the ultimate source of truth. Which is insanely problematic in countries like mine, where "Facebook = real news" by all definitions. And as a consequence this has been the root cause of insane amounts of horror stories. For instance one of the lowest covid vaccination rates in the world(despite being among the first countries that made vaccination available to the general public beyond medical staff and risk groups). About a week ago a political leader stated on TV that she's been aware of a scandal involving a presidential candidate, who was contacted by his friend and immediately called the studio to confront those statements. When the presenter asked her where she got that information her response was: "I read it on the internet". I feel like Carlin's famous "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups" sentence is just that: Facebook became the official platform and facilitated the creation of large communities of the loonies that used to be standing on a cardboard box with a tin-foil hat at the main square shouting about reptilians and all that. The problem is that people are far less likely to listen to someone who hasn't taken a shower in weeks and smells of cigarettes and alcohol than a webcam-selfie in a soviet-green room next to a facebook post. Some weeks ago I saw an article about a website filled with fake news and out of curiosity I decided to investigate it. Turns out it's run by a guy in his early 20's, his mom and his mom's boyfriend or something. And it wasn't just that website: it turned out to be an absolute empire of hundreds websites like the one with thousands of articles and their main source of traffic was Facebook. And it's kind of evident when you see thousands of engagements on their posts in facebook while a news site which I can guarantee that is not biased or controlled by any political party or organization in any way(I am close to much of their staff) gets a couple of dozen likes at best. Facebook might not be the worst idea in human history but it somehow became the worst thing I've seen in my life. Tl;dr(enable sarcastic tone + slow clap): great job you're doing there to prevent misinformation Mr. Zuckerberg.