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by TravisHusky 1716 days ago
At least for me, a big part of my problem with Facebook is both its size and blatant ethical breaches. Obviously most large social networks are guilty of similar problems, but Facebook jump out at me as bad because of how they use information to manipulate people's emotions to increase ad revenue.

Just look at how they realized that misinformation upset people which in turn caused them to interact with the site more, so they allowed that misinformation to spread.

There is also past research that involved trying to manipulate the emotions of users without the user's consent (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470161155995...).

They take a lot of the things that I dislike about social networks and technology and turn it to 11.