2026-09-20 15:44 UTC
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz
Have you looked at the comments on Facebook? It is where all the anger and the hate against everything decent dominates. Hate against the government, the courts, the left, the gays, the women, the immigrants, the minorities, the cyclists, etc, etc. It is how Zuckerberg makes money: by stimulating rage and rage bait.
In the US, there was pizzagate. Another example is India, where inflammatory posts on Facebook incited sectarian violence.
@nmvdw@mathstodon.xyz
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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz 2026-09-20 16:04
@pietkuip@mastodon.nl - I carefully avoid Facebook; I have never visited it and have a plugin in my browser to block their cookies, including the Meta Pixel. But I get what you mean now. I feel that unlike the rest, Zuckerberg is not particularly pro-right-wing: he just wants to make money by stimulating people to use Facebook... and I guess rage works well for him, and he's not restrained by any sense of ethics. I hope it's clear I'm not trying to excuse him here! He's an asshole.