What I’m not sure about is how we are not being honest about the problem?
I agree with this: “network technologies encourage our tendencies toward runaway group think and villainization due to their effect of disinhibition (making us react to something more quickly than we can rationally think about it)”
Except that it seems over-general. I think this is feature of some social network designs, but I don’t see how we can say it applies to all ‘network technogies’.
To me that just leads back to there being a problem with how Facebook is designed.
It is designed to maximize engagement so they can sell ads - I.e. they profit from this disinhibition.
I think we largely agree on what’s happening, but what I don’t yet understand is how you conclude that Facebook is a scapegoat.