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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by dfxm12 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @01:28PM (#23313955)
“Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness,” read a slide from a 2018 presentation. “If left unchecked,” it warned, Facebook would feed users “more and more divisive content in an effort to gain user attention & increase time on the platform.”

According to the article, FB is not taking a passive role in this; they're actively trying to exploit people.

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