Facebook, in a nutshell.. *

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1. When Facebook's own research team discovered that posts that get the "angry face" emoji created more engagement, they made the choice to prioritize posts that get the "angry face" 5x more in other feeds than other posts. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/26/faceboo...

2. Facebook's own research showed that a test account with moderate conservative leanings took only 1 day to start getting QAnon content. They nicknamed the test "Carol's Journey to QAnon", and despite this, allowed QAnon to remain on the platform for 13 more months. More than a year after the FBI designated them as a domestic terrorist threat: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-knew-radical...

3. Their own research showed that suggesting posts to users that their friends have shared radicalized people by giving psychological permission to have extreme views. Basically "your uncle shared this racist post!" gives people the greenlight to also share the racist post. Despite this, Zuckerberg himself refused to allow it to be fixed, saying that it would negatively impact growth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_leak#Promoting_a...

4. Their VP of Global Policy Joel Kaplan is a former Bush advisor and conservative lobbyist. This is important to know for a few of the next points: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Kaplan

5. Breitbart has repeatedly had enough "strikes" to be removed from FB's News tab, but had them waved away personally by Joel Kaplan. The News tab's policies were put into effect to address the concerns around misinformation, saying that FB would remove anyone from the tab that misinformed. Breitbart is still on there today. Facebook endorses the accuracy of Breitbart's reporting by excusing their strikes. https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-files-breitbart-new...

6. When FB employees noticed that the Groups feature was creating new extremist and Neo Nazi groups, they made fixes to tamp down on the hate. Joel Kaplan personally ensured that the fixes were reversed, and again said that doing this would disproportionately affect conservatives: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/28/faceboo...

7. Joel Kaplan prevented Facebook from disclosing the effect that Russian disinformation agents had on the platform, again saying this would disproportionately affect conservatives: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/mark-zuckerberg...

8. Research has been published showing that 13% of suicidal teen girls in the UK trace their first suicidal thought to Instagram. Since learning this, Meta has chosen to make Instagram Kids, an Instagram for children: https://gizmodo.com/lawmakers-ask-zuckerberg-to-drop-instagr...

9. In order to discredit the Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Facebook intentionally deepened political divides as a strategy. They went to the GOP and warned them that she was a leftist political activist trying to take away conservative voices; and then went to Dem lawmakers and claimed she is a GOP political operative trying to punish Facebook for banning Trump. FB cynically tried to deepen the cracks in our damaged system just to stick it to the whistleblower: https://nypost.com/2021/12/29/facebook-tried-to-divide-dems-...

10. Facebook sat back and watched as its platform was used to organize a genocide. All they had to do was put the brakes on FB in one small East-Asian country, which wouldn't have even affected their budget, but despite repeated pleas, they just allowed it to be used to kill people. “In the end, there was so little for Facebook to gain from its continued presence in Burma, and the consequences for the Rohingya people could not have been more dire.": https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-...

Facebook has been intentionally crafted by its creators to be an additive mental illness machine. They knowingly made these choices, choosing addiction and hate and extremism every time.

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