# Is Facebook a Doomsday Machine?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 15, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-facebook-a-doomsday-machine/928090 "2020-12-15T13:13:37Z")\
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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.

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