The thing is, journalists hate Facebook because it’s one of the reasons their profits have gone down the drain, so they’ve created a massive campaign to try and incite hate towards the company. In reality the entire “Facebook bad” meme is completely made up and if we judged every other company by the same standard we’d have to burn down half the businesses in the country.

I think that stack exchange isn’t any better than Facebook. They’re likewise using free user contributions to attract views and sell targeted ads. But there’s no “StackExchange is bad” meme so they don’t get much flack.

never heard any of it from journalists before. heard it from computer nerd friends for years and non nerds joined in a bit later

you seem to be the expert knowing its full history intimately though