Opinion | What Facebook Fed the Baby Boomers - The New York Times

...[I]n my experience they were a primary source of debunked claims, harassment and divisive rhetoric. I showed one comment thread to a colleague who doesn't use Facebook and my colleague found it shocking. "Facebook created a town hall for fighting," they said. "It's almost like if you were building a machine to make a country divisive and extreme — if you were to sit down and plan what that would look like —- it would be this."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/facebook-disinformation-boomers.html