This part is so egregious. Especially since what we know now about how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg virtually stopped all content moderation of hate speech in 2019 around the same time he was hosting dinner parties with conservative media personalities who were critical of the supposed "suppression of conservative voices."

This one statement sums up how far we as a society have fallen. This takes a respected credible news legend like Murrow, and rightly groups today's media consumers in the same vein as conspiracy nut job Jones. We deserve it because a majority of us would rather be entertained than be informed.

The label pyramid scheme fits for MLMs. The people who always benefit from the product are always the people at the top of the food chain. Later in the article, when the company goes under, it turns out the ones who got screwed were the low level workers who were out hundreds or thousands of dollars in inventory. The company eventually had to rebrand and change policies once word got out that dirt had high levels of lead in arsenic. The FB group moderators also cracked down on criticism to prevent negative news about the product from getting int the heads of sellers and customers, who felt the brunt of the company's downfall.

I find it interesting that there are groups devoted to debunking the false claims of MLMs just as there are fact checkers all over social media. In this case, activists are using old fashioned journalism by ebedding themselves in the culture and documenting what is happening. This infiltration tactics are great because it allows first hand accounts and direct source reporting to give insights into what actual sellers are taliking about in these group chats. It's also using the same social media outreach tactics to find like-minded people who want to debunk false claims, in the same vein group organizers try to recruit new customers and people to sell high priced dirt.