I’m confused by the numbers from which the OP draws his conclusions but anecdotally the sentiment feels on point. I recently logged onto FB to help organize a r

I’m confused by the numbers from which the OP draws his conclusions but anecdotally the sentiment feels on point. I recently logged onto FB to help organize a reunion and FB proved itself to be irreplaceable in that use case. But trying to use FB more casually to check up on old friends, I’m astounded at how ugly and user-hostile the newsfeed is. At least with twitter there’s an option (i.e. the ”Following” tab) to see your friends content exclusively. But even the ads and junk content farms are far worse on FB. For example, one of my friends works with Caitlin Clark, and I’ll throw a like at her CC photos. For a month now, my feed is flooded with CC content. Not legitimate or interesting or content (such as game coverage or posts from the Indiana Fever account), but dozens of engagement bait posts from pages named like “official Caitlin Clark 4ever fan club” with a handful of followers using AI photos and prompts like “You are really Caitlin Clark Fans sey yes” I spent 15 min awhile ago just manually hiding and blocking those accounts, with little noticeable effect. What’s the point of a content algorithm if you can’t filter out obvious low effort garbage and expose me to (presumably) the ad-buying official accounts