Cancel Facebook?

Should I stop posting my dog photos and feminist Christian news on Facebook?

I took a 4-year vacay from FB after its reader-enhancing formulas helped elect Donald Trump, and now I'm considering whether to leave again because of its role in the lead-up to January 6 insurrection against our usual peaceful transfer of power in the USA.  

To get more eyeballs, FB looked the other way as Stop the Steal and QAnon worked around its weak efforts to ban them.  It also cut back on its Civic Integrity team and ignored the team's advice.

What do you think?  Should we give FB-Meta a time-out?  All we have to do is treat it like a violent child in the family, shutting them up in a room until they calm down and find a way to play nicely with others.  

This report in the Washington Post reveals how half-hearted Facebook's efforts to stop enhancing hate have been.  Thank you, Craig Timberg, Elizabeth Dwoskin, and Reed Albergotti.

Politico also revealed in Andrea S. Levine's article on Oct. 22 that Facebook took down the original Stop the Steal group in November, but it did not ban content using that phrase until after the Jan. 6 riot.

Facebook felt like such a safe space that a Capitol police K-9 officer exchanged messages with one of the insurrection planners before January 6.  Afterward, he tried to delete those posts and get his friend to delete them too.  Now he's facing a possible 20 years in prison and had to resign from his job.

Listen to NPR's report on how Stop the Steal evaded FB's weak efforts by affiliating with other FB groups.

Thank you to FB whistleblower Frances Haugen for her courageous testimony to the Security and Exchanges Commission on Capitol Hill, reported in the above media and first reported by Buzzfeed.