The Pivot to Groups Poses a Major Challenge for Facebook

A viral ‘boomer’ group floods news feeds while moderators struggle to keep up

Eric Ravenscraft
OneZero
Published in
6 min readJul 15, 2019

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Illustration: Johanna Walderoff

“I“If it’s lit AF, drop a yeet here fam,” reads the first post on my Facebook news feed. It’s been taken over by a pair of dueling groups dedicated to mocking the yawning generation gap between baby boomers and millennials. This is one…

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Eric Ravenscraft
OneZero

Eric Ravenscraft is a freelance writer from Atlanta covering tech, media, and geek culture for Medium, The New York Times, and more.