Social Media is Evil

[DodosAreDead]

Unfortunately this video says it's not available in my country... can you maybe give me the gist of what it's saying?

Facebook is a toilet.

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This brings up an interesting gray area - Facebook itself is not a news organization.  It's merely a social media platform.  To what extent should it police people's opinions?  I mean, obvious hate speech, harassment, trolling, etc. seems a pretty obvious 'no' on any platform, but what about people who use dog whistle terms?  Or just regular language, but in a provocative way?

Should Facebook have the responsibility to vet every purported news source that people share on it?

With great power comes great responsibility and all that. As said in the troll advert in Jamie Oliver's video, Facebook gives people a voice. And usually more people can hear that virtual voice than anyone's actual voice, so for the most part: greater power. Greater responsibility. Ideally that responsibility should be on people to police their own opinions and be more careful of what they're saying. But 90% of people are idiots. So at least from a practical viewpoint Facebook should take up that responsibility to avoid grave consequences such as what happened in Myanmar.