Facebook Is Testing a Dislike Button (thedailybeast.com)

Ever since the inception of the Like button, Facebook users have been asking for a "dislike" button. Today, Facebook is testing a "downvote" button with certain users in the comment section of posts within Facebook groups and on old Facebook memories content. The Daily Beast reports: The feature appears to give users the ability to downrank certain comments. This is the first time Facebook has tested anything similar to a "dislike" button and it could theoretically allow for content that's offensive or relevant to be pushed to the bottom of a comment feed. In 2016, citing Facebook executives, Bloomberg said a dislike button "had been rejected on the grounds that it would sow too much negativity" to the platform. It's unclear how widely the dislike button is being tested. Facebook regularly tests features with small subsets of users that never end up rolling out to the broader public. Most users currently are only able to either Like or Reply to comments in a thread. The downvote option could have radical implications on what types of discussions and comments flourish on the platform. While it could theoretically be used to de-rank inflammatory or problematic comments, it could also easily be used as a tool for abuse.

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A SJW button

[AHuxley]

Nations will instruct their users to down vote anything that does not fit in with their talking points.
Any talk on human rights, blasphemy laws, gov to gov weapons sales, down voted.
Party politics in the USA will suggest their activist down vote news that upset their political party.
Movie studios and celebrities will down vote any negative movie reviews.
Dont like a review of a book? Dont like the way an author wrote about history? Down vote and that topic will not be found.
Governments will down vote any negative comments on their policy or reports about the results of their gov policy.
Freedom of speech and freedom after speech is now about who can get the most down votes to make a topic, news be deranked.
Only ever find good news about a political party.
Only ever find negative news about another political parry.
No other links, topics, comments will be allowed.
In the past a user could find results by searching, now large political and faith groups can down vote topics so results will never be found.