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FB could not continue to profit at its current levels with only the extremist and extremist adjacent percent of the population. There are tens of millions of ordinary Americans who refuse to close their FB accounts. It's literally the easiest and most effective form of protest in existence, yet people refuse to take this simple step to save democracy or even lives. With this reality, it's little surprise that FB continues to flaunt its own user rules and spread mayhem and chaos for dollars.

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So, to make the other side of discussions go viral, we need to follow the model of high volume, outrageous, and repetitive snippets of ad-backed consortiums?

Has Media Matters noticed any change in traffic share to other apps , or is FB continuing to lead?

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Makes sense as to why folks are so crazy posting so much misinformation when that is all they tend to see brainwashing in small doses

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