Reading this was much like watching anything that happens in the 🤡 presidency: shocking, but not surprising. The election misinformation? Yes, we all knew that they allowed all of the lies -but the depth of the  targeted deception, fake accounts and the subsequent unaccountability!? Or the correlation between instagram and teen girls declining mental health? Sure, it’s premised on getting ‘likes’ and rife with kids bullying with targeted posts or comments - but the depth of algorithms that detect someone deleting a selfie to then target messages about weight and appearance? It’s freaking unconscionable. As are the leaders from around the world not regulating Facebook in order to push their own political campaigns. And now we’re learning that Meta has been working with the Chinese government to help censor its citizens.The list goes on.

It is so infuriating how Facebook has infiltrated and upended society. It’s really hard to continue using Instagram honestly, and I had the intention of keeping Facebook only until my kids were out of high school, as so much information for parents is tied to groups there. I do grapple with just chucking it all, but then I saw the Sarah Wynn Williams herself still has a Facebook account despite everything so that she can communicate with her grandparents. I hope that her speaking out will spark some sort of change with social media. What the author reminds us of, is that it could have been a force for good in different hands.

File this under “essential reading” and automatic five stars for sticking it to Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and all of these careless/craven/callous monsters.