I agree with your perceptions of Facebook groups. Indeed, I believe that such perceptions are true of Facebook overall.

I had a Facebook account in its early days but deleted it a couple of years ago because I could no longer, in all conscience, support a platform that knowingly accepts and even, effectively, supports misinformation, disinformation, character assassination, irrationality, simplistic nonsense and outrageous abuse.

What puzzles me, however is why, others who see what I see and understand, as I do, the serious harm that such a platform enacts on society - harm that readily becomes social conditioning & thus self perpetuating - why are those others still active members on the platform?

I mean no disrespect & am attacking neither you nor those others. I understand that some may consider the exposure that the platform provides is sufficient justification to use it, particularly if they salve their conscience by ensuring that they do *not* contribute directly to those negative consequences of the platforms use.

I also understand (and regret) that so many sound organisations and institutions use Facebook as their primary or at least a significant platform for providing information about or even delivering their services. Even non-commercial organisations such as the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), whose charter specifically prevents them from mentioning product names or brands on air or from advertising in return for revenue, use this platform that is replete with advertisements. Is that not a major contradiction, at least by association?

Oughtn't we all to be above self-interest when we so readily appreciate the harm being done by something to which we contribute? Surely one of the most likely ways to stop this disease is to not support it and to expose it from outside, as you've done here?

Unfortunately, my perspective is that the very fact that so many continue membership of the platform and manage a group upon it, mitigates against the very real and, I believe, sincere and accurate assessment of its crass, lowest common denominator & harmful content.