To think Facebook is as bad as X these days?

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I know Zuck got rid of a load of the content moderation quite some time ago but I hadn't fully noticed it until today.

For context, I follow all the main UK news pages, including the tabloids, LBC, Reuters and AP etc.

The comments on today's tragedy have been HORRIFIC. The rampant racism and homophobia is absolutely disgusting. Have people always been this cruel and awful or has social media done something to us? How can anyone's first reaction to today's news be anything other than sadness and pity?

Racism, homophobia and misogyny is actually horrifying now and reflects changing mindsets in many Western socities.

For example no matter how neutral the story or ad if it features a mixed couple I don’t read the comments.

Unless it’s the Guardian with marginally better comments

I did think that actually the Guardian was definitely the lightest on horrible comments. The Telegraph ones were especially nasty.

What tragedy are you referring to OP?

Plane crash, surely?

I haven't read the news today but went looking after I'd asked. Yes, it's awful. FB should be censoring those kind of comments and if they are not, we are going backwards. I only use FB for following dog videos now.

Oh wow - what kind of person makes awful offensive comments about a plane crash?!

Yep, there were plenty of them... The Telegraph featuring the image of the male couple who died in the crash and referred to them as a 'couple' garnered the predictable reactions... They when the news of the survivor broke lots of people saying he was hiding under a wheel or something... and all the predictable crap about the folk of the plane being referred to as British when they have Indian sounding names. Absolutely gross.

I can't look at Facebook at the moment the level of hate makes me cry. I miss it but the level of hatespeech is so extreme