They already have been following in the footsteps of Elon Musk... This will be yet another instance, the latest in a series of following a bad example.
He’s big mad because Dems want to put guidelines & regs in place for things Iike child protection on social media. Remember when he was made to stand up, face and apologize to families of kids who have hurt or unalived themselves due to social media bullying.
The Community Notes model was corrupted as it is a voting process to allow a note to run. With the sites over run by MAGA lunatics, the community notes advance extreme agendas and limit reality-based notes. A lot plays out behind the scenes.
I never really liked Facebook and have it "corralled" in Firefox. And since the recent death of my mother, I don't use it. Probably time to let it go the way of MySpace and move on...
This is rich. Once again Zuck affirms his lack of any real moral fiber. Along with his $ for DJT Innaug he now has acceded to making his platforms a home for a MAGA consensus on any subject. I'm not sure finishing his full 4 years at Harvard would have fixed his broken. totally spineless character.
like here in the UK Oxford and Cambridge seen as liberal but the leader class created are not that Cameron, Johnson etc from Oxford/Eton, for a certain character they breed a superiority type complex, Musk is different but gets his superiority from being the master class in SA
Nazi Benny Johnson's in the instagram comments gargling his nuts for this. "Legitimately brave. Thank you Mark." 🤓
...Benny Johnson was paid millions of dollars through Tenet Media to disseminate Russian disinformation. And he's celebrating the removal of independent fact checkers. Says everything.
Hannah Arendt: "The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood ...
No one should be surprised, given his involvement in the election interference that got TFG elected in 2016. Does no one remember the Facebook employees who had space in TFG'S campaign office?
That's lovely. I've already noticed an uptick in right-wing sites pushed on my newsfeed to follow. I NEVER opened them in the past, so the new algorithm is send this crap to left leaners hoping we'll fall for it? GTHO. I already started warning my friends; we may need to dump FB next
I'm pretty certain I'm going to 86 all my Meta stuff. I don't use it much already -- but Zuck deciding to make FB, instagram and threads much more welcoming to racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic content is just too much.
Plus, he thinks "community notes" works on Twitter...
“We’ve seen this approach work on X,” Meta says with a straight face, as if Elon Musk’s platform isn’t a toxic MAGA swamp these days where misinfo runs rampant.
The aim of media owners (like Musk, Bezos & Zuck) is to clear the way for far-right propaganda. Trump is going to install a Russian-style dictatorship in a few days' time, & these oligarchs have chosen to join forces with him to get even richer, out of greed but also as a result of Trump's threats.
Is it just me or does Zuck look like he’s going through that awkward teenage phase of trying desperately to fit in and find his identity (and failing)?
I have been wrestling with how to exit Facebook (and I guess Instagram which hurts) for some time now because of this zuck bs maga slobbering ... gotta get 15 years worth of photos off of the site first but then it's done as of this announcement. Signal for group chat bluesky and poscasts that's it
There's a way to mass download all your stuff before deleting your account.
I can't recall exactly how to do it, because META constantly seems to attempt to find ways to make it difficult to even delete your account and it's been a while now since I've deleted mine.
It does speak to how intertwined fb gets into our lives...there are people on fb who I only reconnected with and stay in contact with because of fb and Instagram is how I find out about cultural trends but can't do it anymore
Yeah, I had a lot of personal contacts in there that FB was the only way I could connect with them as well. But the platform is simply too toxic, especially now that Zuckerberg publicly stated he wants to take the platform in a backwards direction back to being even more toxic like it used to be.
I am going to try and talk some of them (my contacts) into at least group chatting on Signal... now if I could just find a replacement for Instagram I'd be all set
Oh yeah I have done it in the past it just takes a long time to download and then I have to find the space to store it somewhere (last time I think it was 4GB worth of stuff)...but will do it today just can't take these mega maga billionaires anymore...
One of the reasons Fox is so dominant is that it has the right wing field basically to itself. There just aren't enough fascists to go around for Twitter, Facebook, Truth Social, Gab, and Parler to share.
I think this announcement isn’t the worst part - I want to speak to all who are clapping for being able to have lies posted for them. Because they want to believe it. It fits their view so yay - post the lies for everyone. REALLY REALLY SAD EXCUSE FOR HUMANS.
Zuck the knee bender is such a creepy little fuck. I just can’t listen or look at his goofy face to finish the video. I really can’t stand that garbage human.
The problem with centralised fact checking is that it can be easily accused of bias/coercision and so on. I actually think having consensus based community checks can be very powerful if implemeted well.
sure, there are ways to mitigate this though, check out The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. He explores this in some depth. If we really believe in democracy we need to trust eachother and not defer to the state imo
How do you have billions and still not have enough? How do you not just say, keep one billion for yourself which nearly grows exponentially at lowest %, and, idk, solve child hunger or homelessness? Why?? I don’t get it.
Facebook is pretty much boomers only these days. Instagram is mostly millennials and lots of ads (except for Instagram reels…some Gen Z still using this a lot). Threads distinctive competence was that it *wasn’t* Twitter/X. I have no problem leaving Meta in the dustbin of history.
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You are being much to kind.
Dude is just fucking evil. Pay attention.
Or did the Trump Crime Family threaten their lives? What the hell is happening with our country?
Leave it on.
He doesn't give a damn what happens in this world.
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#absolutely
Theres a reason zucc and his billionaire buddies cant show face in public.
...Benny Johnson was paid millions of dollars through Tenet Media to disseminate Russian disinformation. And he's celebrating the removal of independent fact checkers. Says everything.
CNBC highlighted it.
I don't want to goof it up the way I did leaving Twitter.
Plus, he thinks "community notes" works on Twitter...
None of this is shocking.
Facebook elected Trump in 2016. X elected him in 2024.
I can't recall exactly how to do it, because META constantly seems to attempt to find ways to make it difficult to even delete your account and it's been a while now since I've deleted mine.
https://youtu.be/LP7z-EbvEto
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They can all disappear from the internet.