Facebook Troubles (Is Twitter Next?)

This news isn’t new or original. We have all known of Facebook’s global malfeasance and contributions to human rights abuses, wars and coup de tat’s, censorship, riots, and the spread of hatred, racism, and antisemitism.

We know that Facebook makes money by profiting on paid disinformation by domestic and foreign criminals. And we know that at its core Facebook is an international criminal enterprise that occasionally provides regular users access to goods, services, family, and a curated community of like-minded followers.

But your auntie selling earrings on Facebook is not the purpose of Facebook. Your church broadcasting Sunday services are not the reason for Facebook’s existence. And your high-school reunion pictures are not why Facebook allows photo and video sharing.

Facebook exists to make money for its investors and shareholders and to provide big business, criminals, disinformation peddlers, child traffickers, authoritarian governments, anti-government organizations, and white supremacy groups an online safe space to gather, share, plot, influence, recruit, and grow their reach and spread their messages to a neighbor, voter, and insurrectionist near you.

Facebook is the real life application of “Bad news spreads fast.”