Vast Majority of Americans Say Facebook Has Made Society Worse

[Celerity]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/facebook-has-made-society-worse-say-vast-majority-of-americans

These results might help explain why Mark Zuckerberg was so eager to rename his business last month. A new poll from CNN shows that over three-quarters of Americans surveyed said they believe Facebook has harmed U.S. society—and half of respondents said they personally know someone who believes in a conspiracy theory because of something they saw on the social network.

The headline poll result showed that an astonishing 76 percent of Americans believe that Facebook has made society worse, with just 11 percent saying that Facebook had improved society. The results also showed that 49 percent of people know someone who they think has fallen for a conspiracy theory because of content they saw on Facebook. The CNN Poll was carried out by SSRS between Nov. 1 through 4, days after Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook would be rebranded with the new name Meta.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/10/business/cnn-poll-facebook/index.html

[SoonerPride]

1. +1

add me to that list

[leftstreet]

2. What is a "CNN poll?"

[Celerity]

4. here

http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2021/images/11/10/rel7b.facebook.pdf

[leftstreet]

5. They should poll "Does corporate news make society worse?"

Thanks for posting that

[JohnSJ]

3. and how many of those who said society is worse because of facebook have accounts, and have

no intention of deleting those accounts?

[Mike Nelson]

6. Well...

... they said the same thing about Television. Personally, I think FB is better... everyone on DU should also post on FB, Twitter, etc. If you don't go there and post your stuff, they win... OCCUPY SOCIAL MEDIA!

[Celerity]

7. All you are doing is feeding revenue to FB. FB hyper amplifies RW batshittery to levels trad telly

can only dream of.

[genxlib]

8. Reading between the lines

"The results also showed that 49 percent of people know someone who they think has fallen for a conspiracy theory because of content they saw on Facebook."

The other 51 percent were the ones who fell for a conspiracy theory on Facebook and were too dense to realize it.