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That gets to the heart of the problem, actually. People use Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends, yet Facebook still systematically pushes inflammatory content on them, despite that not being the "reason" people are there. And, eventually, it gets a surprisingly high percentage of people to respond to that inflammatory content, thus furthering the cycle.



FWIW (and it might not be worth much much).

I'm from Venezuela and most of my contacts are too.

Most content that I would consider "bad" that comes up for people are just memes, and stupid top X/spammy-ish/clickbaity content or recipe videos.

Maybe a different algorithm or just network effects?


It could be any number of things - for one there may not be much advertisment spend in your region compared to the US.


Are you in a target group for voter ads using fake news messages?


Yeah they should just stop hosting public profiles and figures.




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