In last few weeks I am seeing a lot of "Suggested for you" content on my Facebook wall that comes from pages I don't follow which can be best described as a flamebait. Those pages can be described as "anti-left" and "anti-woke" content and posts from them appearing on my timeline fall into either of those groups:<p><pre><code> - People of color casted for originally white characters.
- Out of context left/progressive politician or activist quotes.
- Photos of people in kink gear from pride parades.
- Photos of trans/non conforming people who have problems passing or drag queens presented as trans people.
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Each of those posts are accumulating dozens of thousands of interactions on them, be it reactions or comments.<p>I'm not following any pages that produce content like this, neither I am visiting websites like this and this doesn't even match my views, so I am puzzled. Is this "bottom of the barrel" attempt by Facebook to increase user engagement by exploiting their outrage at things?<p>I am the only one? Is it a fluke or a trend by Facebook?