Isn't this also true of Twitter? Why always such unique hate for FB? Because they don't deplatform conservatives quite as aggressively as Twitter? "We’re sure many of you, like us, have experienced first-hand how Facebook gives people license to be their worst selves. It can elevate mere differences of political opinion into anger and hostility, pushing friends and family into extreme views, turning loved ones into ugly caricatures of their former selves. Perhaps you have even regretted some of your own posts there; the Facebook interface is designed to make it difficult to engage in good-faith disagreements."
Twitter is totally unsuitable for intelligent discussion. To make a point with nuance requires paragraphs of text. Even a typical forum (looks around) can't really handle the amount of text required to make a satisfying, representative and well rounded argument.
Twitter gets some hate because it can push the vibe of a situation in a weird political direction, but Facebook's overzealous moderation actually stifles something closer to real debate. Also, Facebook is where communities are organising so the bans hurt more.
Twitter is a smaller, less powerful company with a much smaller userbase and it only really has the main Twitter service, while Facebook is more encompassing with services like Messenger, groups, events, pages, Marketplace, Workplace, dating, Portal and now a Substack clone (not to mention Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus).
But the things this author is criticizing about Facebook in the quote I posted really only apply to the main Facebook service -- not Messenger, Marketplace, Workspace, dating, Instagram, etc. And they apply equally to Twitter.
Chronological is not the default on Twitter. You have to toggle to "Latest" for that. Twitter knows that showing what the algorithm wants you to see drives more engagement than a chronological feed.
> Isn't this also true of Twitter? Why always such unique hate for FB?
Twitter also gets criticized a lot, people talk about leaving Twitter all the time. The main difference with Facebook is probably that for many people, it covers more things, is more integral and thus harder to leave.
