The Current Facebook News Feed is Bizarre
139In my most elaborate schizopost yet, I dive into the recent corruption of my Facebook news feed, and wonder if others have the same experience.
Everyone is aware by now that Facebook and other sites spy on your activity, feeding you advertisements they think would be relevant to you based on your current interests, or Amazon purchase history. Sometimes, it's kind of cool and useful.
What's happened now, is that things have gone totally off the rails and turned into a form of social engineering.
An obscene amount of articles regarding Lizzo, the WNBA, Madonna's plastic surgery, anti-capitalist pages, and other irrelevant nonsense with a social justice slant, are being spammed at a rate that feels a little too frequent to be the work of an algorithm gone haywire.
No longer is stuff being recommended to you based on your current interest, and the app is seemingly unable to detect any of my online activity, and Facebook's news feed is basically unreadable.
To combat this, I run a plugin called FBP on my desktop computer, but browsing on my phone, the old Facebook experience has been replaced by the most blatant astroturfing I've ever seen.