View: Facebook controversy has shown that free speech just an excuse to polarise

I joined Twitter in 2009 and have since maintained fidelity to this social media platform. Frankly, I have never been a Facebook aficionado, albeit I reluctantly opened an account because there was this phase when many thought that if I did not increase Mark Zuckerberg’s market capitalisation, I was an anachronism in the age of Big Tech. It was the cool thing to do; I remember going to parties frequented mostly by those with a visible hangover of a mid-life crisis who brightened up when saying: “Let’s connect on Facebook”.

That same seemingly innocuous Facebook has now become an uncontrollable Frankenstein, a gargantuan monster that is capable of slaying democracies, upending social behaviour, destroying fragile minds and creating a toxic