When FB critics repeat these claims, they're engaged in #critihype, Lee Vinsel's useful coinage describing criticism that serves to bolster the target's own propaganda. If FB are evil geniuses, well, at least they're still *geniuses.*
https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5
Some Facebookers doubtless believe their own hype, but that doesn't mean we have to join them in self-delusion.
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