Good Thread: 1 / I'd been thinking a lot lately about the smaller, more practically dangerous effects of unchecked disinformation on platforms with exponential sharing and community growth. Then I saw a woman in a QAnon Facebook group earnestly ask for help with her tinnitus.

2 / The woman in the QAnon group asking for help with her tinnitus received these suggestions:

It’s your wifi. Go barefoot.

Mind control labs are just shifting their frequency.

“Your DNA is getting upgraded.”

It’s a common symptom of your mind awakening. Read my ebook.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) June 25, 2020

4 / When Facebook prioritized groups, their recommendations algorithm drove these people down exponentially darker rabbit holes.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) June 25, 2020

6 / It’s all simmering just beneath the surface.

It’s not really fixable anymore. It's not even visible anymore. For Facebook, that was the point.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) June 25, 2020