#destroy facebook

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And Facebook suspended me for 30 days. For lightheartedly teasing my friend—a fellow Star Trek fan—that I was going to shoot him with his own fictional TV show weapon, I got a 30 day ban from Facebook. This is hot on the heels of them suspending me 30 days in July for responding to the overturning of Roe vs Wade with, “men are the worst.” Anyone who thinks those are reasons to be banned for any amount of time should seek psychiatric help immediately.

This is so frightening:

One thing stuck out. Towns where Facebook use was higher than average, like Altena, reliably experienced more attacks on refugees. That held true in virtually any sort of community — big city or small town; affluent or struggling; liberal haven or far-right stronghold — suggesting that the link applies universally.

Their reams of data converged on a breathtaking statistic: Wherever per-person Facebook use rose to one standard deviation above the national average, attacks on refugees increased by about 50 percent.

Nationwide, the researchers estimated in an interview, this effect drove one-tenth of all anti-refugee violence.

The uptick in violence did not correlate with general web use or other related factors; this was not about the internet as an open platform for mobilization or communication. It was particular to Facebook.

Other experts, asked to review the findings, called them credible, rigorous — and disturbing. [...]

Such links would be indirect, researchers say, but begin with the algorithm that determines each user’s newsfeed.

That algorithm is built around a core mission: promote content that will maximize user engagement. Posts that tap into negative, primal emotions like anger or fear, studies have found, perform best and so proliferate.

That is how anti-refugee sentiment — which combines fear of social change with us-versus-them rallying cries, two powerful forces on the algorithm — can seem unusually common on Facebook, even in a pro-refugee town like Altena.

Ban Facebook. Now. Delete your account, leave this toxic company behind.

At the very least, make it accountable for all the hate speech and racist nonsense that it shelters to get more eyeballs and offer advertisers more compliant consumers.