[caisah]

>it's the fact that half this country does not care for fact vs fiction.

Sometimes is not that simple. A lot of this is related to personal biases and just the way the brain works. Ofcourse people can try to train theirselves into being more skeptic but in a world in which every day you are bombarded with information is pretty hard to find the time and motivation to do so.

[kensai]

Personal bias and brain tricks contributions are really blown out of proportions here. Most of the stuff that happens in the fact vs fiction is unfortunately of this aspect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5d4yVP7sNA

[TaylorAlexander]

I feel like what you're saying is: humans have inherent flaws.

Even if it were the case that Mark Zuckerburg was exploiting those flaws for personal benefit, I find it hard to blame him - we live in and support a society that encourages that behavior. If exploiting human flaws for profit is an undesired outcome for human organizations, we should work to stop encouraging that behavior.

I will however provide a counter point to my own argument, which is that we should name and shame those who abuse human nature at society's expense for their own benefit. Otherwise we end up with a society full of people who are actively harming society.

Honestly I don't know what to think. I just wanted to provide both of these views. I'm curious what the response to either views is.