The funny thing with social networks is they all have both of these cohorts, so long as you go down the right rabbit-holes and engage with the right content creators

Rachel worked at Facebook for some time a while ago. She's been consistently mentioning the cat pictures to refer to it in her blog.

I suppose this way of referring to it is also meant to belittle it.

I assume the "the whole genocide thing and enabling fascism" part is more a dig than something to narrow down.

Yeah, might be Twitter, but might as well be Facebook. Though I'm leaning towards Twitter

I interpreted it as the Rohingya / Myanmar genocide and Facebook’s role in it, and the CambridgeAnalytica scandal that (allegedly) enabled Trump to get elected.

> genocide thing

I can only think of one social network when I hear that word. Are there others?

As of 2023, it's all of them promoting a pro-genocide narrative, particularly Twitter these days is promoting outright pro-genocide accounts in my feed from people I don't follow, but I think the author is referring to the Rohingya genocide case in Myanmar.

See https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

Maybe she didn’t really want to tell you which one it is :)

Rachel Kroll worked at Facebook. Her work history is not explicitly listed on her blog, but you can find it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13400687

https://medium.com/wogrammer/rachel-kroll-7944eeb8c692

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon16/speaker-or-organi...