Misinformation, and public unrest. the thing i saw at facebook over and over was there were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for facebook. and facebook over and over again chose to optimize for its own interests like making more money. you have your phone. you might see only 100 pieces of content if you sit and scroll for five minutes. but facebook has thousands of options they could show you. the algorithm picks from those options based on the kind of content you ve engaged with the most in the past. and one of the consequences of how facebook is picking out that content today is that it is on the optimizing for content that gets engagement or reaction, but its own research is showing that content that is hateful, that is divisive, that is polarizing, it s easier to inspire people to anger than it is to other emotions. misinformation, angry content ....