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by zandl 2771 days ago
If you can link the fall of democracy to misinformation being spread on their platform, genocide and mob murders, yes I’d say not all tech companies are that bad.
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I think poor education, stagnation of living standards and rising inequality is a lot worse in that area than Facebook.

Granted, I think angrymob-media would be a much more fitting description than social-media, but it’s not like humanity wasn’t perfectly capable of making really shitty decisions long before the internet.