Is Facebook a Doomsday Machine?

It is not so much about fake news as such, but rather that FB encourages the worst of humankind to come to the fore: resentment, envy, hate. Those are the feelings that FB magnifies by default because they generate the most “engagement”. FB rots every conversation.
And it is manipulative by design too: they call it advertisement, but it is actually manipulation. Because they are so good at it, it goes beyond advertisement.