> The UN found Facebook helped facilitate a genocide in Myanmar. We know that it helped foment an insurrection at the US Capitol. And its own research says it is harming teenagers. (A 2019 Facebook presentation slide, just revealed, said: “We make body-image issues worse for one in three teenage girls.”)

> That’s all fine, it turns out, but if this suit can prove it’s lied to investors, someone is going to jail.

- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/10/latest-revelations-mark-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-the-house-of-zuckerberg

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... a world that is not the public sphere in any sense at all, but is actually based upon polarization, amplification of hate, and, more than anything, the sweet spot, the oil of the new economy, which is people’s addiction and their attention... being put into fight or flight, getting outraged, getting angry, getting just sort of agonized. And that is exactly what Facebook is doing...

- https://www.democracynow.org/2021/10/26/professor_ramesh_srinivasan_on_the_facebook
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>「Facebookがコンテンツを選択している結果のひとつは、エンゲージメントやリアクションを得るコンテンツに最適化している。しかし、独自の調査によると、憎悪や分裂、偏向的なコンテンツは、他の感情よりも人々の怒りを刺激しやすいことがわかっている」

> Facebookは、アルゴリズムをより安全なものに変更すれば、人々のサイト滞在時間が短くなり、広告のクリック数も減り、収益も減ることに気づいた、と彼女は主張した。

- https://www.axion.zone/facebook/

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