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> In the same way that it's Facebook's prerogative to spread misinformation on their website, it's the user's prerogative to understand that they shouldn't trust what they read on Facebook.

The asymmetry between Facebook users and Facebook users is enormous. One has the power to spend vast sums on advertising to attract new users, maintain a clean brand image with PR, monitor non-users' actions across the internet and beyond and algorithmically manipulate the emotions and beliefs of its users, etc.

What power do you or I have to justify splitting the moral responsibility with them 50/50? More education is always a good thing, but it's too late to tell 1.62 billion daily active users (Q3 2019) "You should know better". Facebook has become too good at what it does.

I don't know what the answer is. But whatever it is, letting Facebook carry on doing what it does and expecting society to change around it isn't going to work.

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For the vast majority of people that use Facebook it's a minuscule sliver of their day, it's not some all encompassing monolith that controls their thoughts, most people will spend a few minutes leaving comments or posting photos, they don't rely on Facebook as a tool to understand complex issues. As I said, this is a cultural problem not a technology problem, you might as well be complaining about Fox News, people have to make their own decisions about which sources of information are reliable.