What is driving down Facebook views?

 Monica Showalter:

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Get woke, go broke.  It applies even to the big boys.

In Facebook's case, that behavior has taken on approximately three pernicious forms.

One, the data-harvesting, and data-mining on users, in order to "nudge" and influence them.  Plenty of people don't like that even for commercial purposes, but the fact that Facebook moved in a political direction is especially obnoxious.  Facebook has hired lots of Democrat party operatives, presumably to lobby Washington, but just as likely to manipulate Facebook's users into voting "Democrat" through the miracle of algorithms.  Facebook, see, knows you better than you know yourself, based on all its data-harvesting.  That doesn't sit well with many users, and as word gets out about it, some users are packing up.

Two, the censors.  Facebook has gone hog wild on censoring conservatives as well as anyone skeptical of government wisdom on COVID lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and therapeutics.  They've shut down critics, and skeptics, often by using actual Chinese communist censors, as well as colluded with their supposed rivals in some amazing trust activity — for instance, to shut down the social media accounts of a president of the United States.  Facebook did that right after the crazies at Twitter did it.  They've since shut down Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, again, working in tandem with supposed rival Twiter.  How this isn't the mother of all trust-busting cases for Congress is a mystery, except that it isn't.  Social media behemoths donate generously to leftists and lapdog Republicans in Congress to ensure that things go their way.  So the censorship continues, and everyone who gets censored gets labeled a crackpot.  That even includes some respected doctors, such as Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA vaccine.  What's more, there are the meddlesome cautionary notices and warnings, all targeted at conservatives and their ideas, done with amazing caprice.  Does that make users want to sign on?  The short answer is no.

Three, Facebook has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into something well beyond social media — into election mechanisms themselves under the cover of "fair elections" and "civil society."  In reality, it was a questionably legal seeding of Facebook cash and operatives into vote-counting offices in a bid to manipulate voting to get Democrats elected.  Some, such as Federalist editor Mollie Hemingway, who wrote a book about this, believe that this activity is what swung the election to Joe Biden in 2020.  Many states have since cracked down on these "Zuckerbucks" in our vote-counting offices, but the damage has been done.  Yes, there are users who wanted out from the whole Facebook racket after that one.

As for Zuckerberg, we hope he's happy with the election he bought for himself.  The economy is in the tank, the customers are ravaged by inflation, the ad revenue is down, and now Facebook's stock is feeling it in the big downwind.  Proud of yourself, Mark?  Maybe you shouldn't have bought that election, because not only do your customers have less cash to spend for your advertisers, but they hate you for doing it. 

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I do find their badges they attach to some subjects annoying and their censorship of conservatives makes them a less interesting site.  They also started blocking many of the links that used to be available on the site.  Those links were actually one of its more attractive features. I, too, wonder if Zuckerberg is proud of the mess he made of the country by getting Biden elected.  At a minimum, it shows bad judgment.  A majority of people would now rather have Trump as President.