Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society - The Verge

In the past months I’ve read more and more articles from people who work or have worked for social media companies and now talk about how such services are contributing massively to rip apart our society. This is another one showing the problem of misinformation, AI-influenced aggregated “timelines” that only make things worse instead of unifying society and helping people. While there is much value in social media, there’s a constantly rising underlying issue in most big services: In strive for more revenue and new features, these services try to match interests to people and fail horribly because they match the interests quite good instead of providing eye-opening, neutral and objective content to users that would make them reflect their views and interests.