Big platforms still en vogue as racing avoids the Facebook blues

You've got to raise a big foam hand to whoever wrote last week's BBC Technology headline 'Facebook to use AI to respect the dead'. Talk about sneaking one in. It reads more like the Onion or the Daily Mash and it would be hard to cram more contempt into eight words.

The trouble is that Farcebook users have been enduring the "painful experience of getting suggestions to invite dead people to events or wish them a happy birthday". Nice. And it's not just this crass malfunction that's giving Mark Zuckerberg an unsmiley-Facebook feeling.

The big platforms – one of many terms that mean something completely different to elderly Slade fans grappling with the new century – are under fire for expediting poison, hatred, aggro and death, plus monitoring their own customers with impolite zeal.