someone should have just shut down Facebook entirely

And nothing of value would be lost.

I don’t know about that. The frontline has barely moved in the last 2-3 years or so.

Especially if we zoom out and look at the world map, small towns changing hands wouldn’t be visible on a map of that scale

It is indeed bad and inaccurate.

I bet they only chose it because it looked similar enough to Mercator, unlike Dymaxion or other options.

People really hate change, friction, and doing something in a new way, even as small as using a different map.

So they settled for Equal Earth map as a compromise, because it’s a slight incremental improvement over Mercator, rather than a fully new thing.

Isn’t Dymaxion map projection even more accurate than Waterman-butterfly?

IMO marking Crimea as neutral makes zero sense in what otherwise would be a great map suggestion, and it really pisses me off.

Either show the actual control status on the ground: which would mean 80% of Ukraine marked as Ukrainian, 20% of Ukraine as Russian.

Or show 100% of it all as Ukrainian, as it’s agreed upon internationally.

Showing entire Ukraine as Ukrainian except for “neutral” Crimea doesn’t match reality neither legally nor militarily.