Social Media is Evil

[KevinM1]

Which is what I was trying to get at.  Facebook isn't a news source.  It's a way for news to be shared, sure, but it's merely a middleman.  Facebook doesn't really produce content.  So, it becomes a bit murky when it comes to someone trying to blame the platform for things that aren't really its responsibility.

Ideally, people would have the tools to figure out what's truthful and what's propaganda via solid education.  But I find it a bit weird to blame Facebook for a country's failure to provide that to its people.  There's also the practical matter that Facebook can't vet everything that's posted or shared.  The amount of information is ridiculous, and there's no AI currently available to go through it all, especially not in a way that's as fast/seamless as users would demand.

And, like you say, there's also the opposite side of the issue - do we really want corporate entities determining what information people consume?  Like, yeah, everyone (myself included) celebrated when Stormfront was booted down to the dark web, but I'm not sure I'm entirely comfortable with the broader scope of that.  I don't want Google, Facebook, Twitter, et al. becoming our de facto media regulatory body.