Facebook is broken, and it's broken by design.

These tiny patches they add on to correct their worst outrages are nothing but measures to avoid the regulation that is absolutely required to stop the dread that Facebook has become. The basic problem is that they keep optimizing for engagement, desperate to keep growing the beast, and that the most engaging content is everything that causes outrage. They know this problem, and they won't fix it because fixing it might limit their growth.

At this point, Facebook is little but a cancer on society.

I direct your attention to https://www.technologyreview.c... (Which Facebook seems to be ensuring doesn't show up in anyone's feed - you can post it there, but it'll receive zero engagement), and the Twitter thread that discusses how Facebook has been working on killing this story: https://twitter.com/glichfield...

I mean, I guess I can excuse your lack of reading ability - the truth is just glaring at you from the summary itself.
'Talking to a CNN anchor in late 2019 Joe Biden said, "You can't do what they can do on Facebook, and say anything at all, and not acknowledge when you know something is fundamentally not true. I just think it's all out of hand."'

'[...] New York Times interview from a year ago he said he wanted it "revoked immediately". '

The fact that you've been modded to +5 when spouting nonsense shown false in the very summary of the article you're responding to is however a rather damning indictment of Slashdot's user-run moderation system.

Parent should have more mod points.

Dicks. Very few billionaires have teats.

As reported by Boomberg.com (the l they stuck in there must be a typo, right?)

Oh wait, we were supposed to actually do the research BEFORE we posted the conclusion?

My bad. Anyway, that's what the data(*) will turn out to show, so you might as well take it as given.

(*): As properly massaged by our highly salaried data-obscu^H^H^H^H^scientists.

It's like you think people getting sick, dying or staying sick for months(*) doesn't impact the economy. Your math's a poor excuse for deranged Trumpism.

(*) Possibly much more, we don't know the long-term damage but signs of serious organ damage has been found in a ridiculously high percentage of people who've gotten well - including those who were never hospitalized.

Seconded

Some few activists mean that, yes. The large majority doesn't.
The only leadership position Mariame Kaba (who wrote the article you linked) has is leader of the small organization she founded, Project NIA.
She's hardly anywhere even remotely close to a leadership position of the movement as a whole.

'The proposed amendment replaces that with "a department of community safety and violence prevention" that will take "a holistic, public-health-oriented approach."

It also provides for a law enforcement division with licensed officers.'

I'd look up the definition of "defund" before I accused others of redefining it. Here, let me help:

defund
[ dee-fuhnd ]
verb (used with object)
to withdraw financial support from, especially as an instrument of legislative control: Many university programs were defunded by the recent government cutbacks.
to deplete the financial resources of: The cost of the lawsuit defunded the company's operating budget.

And 81% of all murders of white people is by other white people. Homicide is largely intra-racial. Your point?

And "Defund the police" doesn't mean "Abolish the police". If it did, they'd say that.
Defund the police means "divesting funds from police departments and reallocating them to non-policing forms of public safety and community support, such as social services, youth services, housing, education, and other community resources. "

Today, police takes up a gigantic part of city budgets that has grown utterly out of control over the past decades. Their responsibilties have inflated as well, as they've had to take over the jobs of many of these other forms of public safety and community support *as they were defunded to increase police budgets*.
Thus we get heavily armed military style cops doing jobs that an unarmed civil servant could do at a fraction of the cost.

You know the other part of that expression? The whole thing is "One bad apple spoils the whole barrel". Since there's apparently a general agreement as to the fact of there being quite a lot of bad apples in the US police... My conclusion is: The "Thin Blue Line" is a spoiled barrel.

The true innovation in Uber's research is obviously using this for actively targetting pedestrians and cyclists, an early prototype was demonstrated a couple of years back...

*UV lamps, dammit