Probably not at all. Facebook's collective desire for higher engagement and profit will likely outweigh any concern for individual or collective users.

I hear what you're saying, but from a slightly different angle. I wonder if the profit motive creates a conflict of interest the same way that corporate news tends towards bias to satisfy advertisers.

I am thinking of exiting Facebook for at least a couple of months because my posts/shares (which tend to have a political slant or at least broader perspective to them) don't seem to get any reaction or be shared anymore. Neither do music, alternative culture, or sustainability/environmental posts.

If Facebook is unable to give people the dignity to fail at debating one another and be challenged by new ideas, then that may not be compatible with democracy. I hope they fix whatever is going on with their feed algorithm, and maybe 3000 people training AIs will help, but I wonder if the problem isn't technology.

Your premise is overbroad. Some kinds of social media use patterns can certainly have such a result. For others it's a great help. I had catastrophic problems with self image and depression long before there was such a thing as the public internet and my online social networks are absolutely essential to my health and wellbeing.

I didn't claim it was the only cause/contributor. I only pointed out that by now, there is a growing body of research demonstrating that it contributes to such problems.

Fair enough, sorry for misinterpreting you.