Is Social Media Destroying Society? Former Facebook Exec Says 'Yes'

[Public Enemy]

 

[finessence]

I mean, Elon isn’t responsible for this ignorant and misinformed society. It’s bigger than him. Lots of people, educators, tech people, politicians, civilians, etc are complicit.

Can’t put that on him

 

[jape]

uhhh yeah you can

 

[TSCQ]

He had an agenda behind the purchase of twitter, you can definitely hold him accountable for disinformation and hate groups.

 

[finessence]

He had an agenda behind the purchase of twitter, you can definitely hold him accountable for disinformation and hate groups.

… disinformation and hate groups were on Twitter wellllll before Elon.

Twitter was a cesspool BEFORE Elon

Dating back to the Jack Dorsey days. Y’all need to blame terrible parents and the US educational system. Again, blame your dumbass country which continues to defund education, underpays teachers, and cares more about nonsense, than the stuff that really matters. Incompetency has damn near become a plague in America. Place is full of followers and people who don’t think for themselves

Let a South African infiltrate the landscape. Again, idiots on Twitter, FB and IG have been spreading lies before this Elon fiasco. Again, I don’t even care for dude but it goes to show how lazy this country is

 

[gry60]

disinformation and hate groups were on Twitter wellllll before Elon.

Twitter was a cesspool BEFORE Elon

Twitter had active moderation before Musk. That's the first thing he got rid of when he bought the app, and what do you know? 19th century "science" about race, geography, and medicine started proliferating on the platform again.

Blaming parents and the US education system is a copout and irrelevant. Twitter is global. The disinformation is global, and there's nothing an American public school teacher can do about Musk lying to Ugandans/British/Canadians through the app.

 

[tr1ll]

He had an agenda behind the purchase of twitter, you can definitely hold him accountable for disinformation and hate groups.

I think Google is putting in just as much work as Elon on that front but Google don't have a name and face attached to it.

 

[TSCQ]

I think Google is putting in just as much work as Elon on that front but Google don't have a name and face attached to it.

In this digital era you can put a face to any company, people can do their "research"

 

[jape]

yeah elon is def policing some peoples tweets more than others. a lot of it is crazy racist stuff i couldn’t even post on here. blatant.

and they are all complicit but unfortunately that’s what gets as much engagement as possible.

 

[tr1ll]

I wonder if the whole negative content gets more engagement is still true. The studies that proved that were done a few years ago. I wonder if the fact that people know that now has had any affect.

 

[finessence]

I wonder if the whole negative content gets more engagement is still true. The studies that proved that were done a few years ago. I wonder if the fact that people know that now has had any affect.

It’s worse. Negative publicity equating to attention and fame is live and well.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[sooperhooper]

That's lunacy

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[NToweG]

Most of those folks are the ones that wobble into walmart

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[ALNotSure]

So true

 

[nice jahb]

Instagram was fire when it was just pictures. No text, no dms, nothing. Once they added videos (to compete with Vine) it was the downfall.

 

[dakingii]

I feel like people would still post like that if it wasnt for them adding stories. We gotta blame Snapchat for that change since they had to make something to compete.

 

[ALNotSure]

Well also people at first posted for passion then it became post to get paid.

 

[TSCQ]

Once FB bought IG, it open the gates to hell.

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Good