They are not even bothering to disguise it now - although given the level of straight out racism/ sexism already posted on Facebook - will anyone notice the difference?
How will Facebook compensate their workers moving to Texas? Are these workers aware, upon moving. They lose their rights to, such as abortion and others? Mark, do you even care about your workers?
Why people are still on Facebook is totally beyond me. Being on FB is like being admitted to a perverse reverse asylum, which is designed to make you mad instead of curing you. Get out! Get out before they fuck with your brain!
Facebook is already a bot, scammer, and conspiracy theorist infested shithole. Its hard to imagine it getting any worse.. I'm sure Zuckercunt will find a way though.
Haven’t had any Facebook/Instagram in years. Because I could not give a shit what you ate for dinner last night and where you went on vacation. I loved connecting with people but other than that, I don’t care.
No offense but if you have one of these you support him. You’re a part of the problem.
The right thinks fact checking is "politically biased" because right wing views are almost entirely made-up bullshit. When you lie all the time, people pointing out the truth feels like bias.
Oh Lord! 😱Thankfully I vacated FB years ago, never entertained X. May have to rethink Instagram 😞😞 We are once again living in scary times! #peaceandlove
Facebook has been trash for years but this will rival X for disinformation. Time to delete social media. I hope @bsky.app can toe the line and not fall to the billions that will be thrown at them.
Folk arguing in the comments of the post increases engagement, exposure (sharing posts in news and other sites), and ultimately drives more traffic to the site (and ad revenue) than censoring and removing controversial posts. It's all about money.
Meta to get rid of factcheckers? Hint: It's about the money.
There's a lot more money in the viral spread of bulls**t than in facts. That it's evil and contrary to the public interest is par for Zuck's course.
Leave the post-truth autocratic social media infosphere now. You can't win there for the simple reason that they own you entirely there, inasmuch as "you" exist there.
Own yourself. Move entirely to Bluesky or any other open public standard AT social media server.
How long before Facebook users start exiting the platform, akin to the Twitter exit? I would venture a guess that a significant number of people don't care to wallow in a cesspit of misinformation and disinformation.
I don't think that will happen. Facebook users are more casually involved in their social media than the chronically online Twitter crowd (which included me). They've already grown accustomed to the cesspit, Meta is just taking away the ladder to get out.
Lets hope so, but Facebook has a lot of boomers and gen X'ers hooked still. And Instagram is full of people who are worried about losing their followers. Just look how hard some people find it to leave Musk his nazi site
Not all of us boomers. I left Facebook for Twitter, and am beginning to think the solution is private server Usenet (which is a Boomer thing, I suppose).
Good :) And i dont know what the solution is, but i do know i'm sick and tired of these billionaires influencing billions of people and telling them what to think and what to do. I wish more people had the sense to leave these sites, its algorithms are so bad for society
It is what it is. It's their company and their TOCs.
It was helpful but I always check information I come across. I don't rely on social media for facts/news. I learnt to think for myself and do my own research.
The reason I left FB 5+ years ago is because of all the political junk I kept seeing. You would think they would add a survey as to why you delete your account so they could address the issues.
True, having stuff from friends buried under tons of nonsense... just makes no sense (except for divisive social engineering purposes). The feed should be chronological feed from your friends and groups only, like during the early days. #DeleteFacebook
Looks like Zuck's joining the billionaire boys club in manipulating social media. Glad we're already here on Bluesky where algorithms don't control what we see. Follow https://twitterexodus.org if you want to help others escape the billionaire echo chambers.
Americans ppl (not USA ppl) don't believe in fact checking anyway. DT & his gangs are their daddies. The educated od sound minds & savvy will go to Snopes, or decent newspaper 4 fact check. We don't need Meta & we got your number in 2016. U fuck up this country in 2016 Meta.
They are constantly pushing content to me on Instagram, from Threads. At least 90% of the celebrity content they are trying to push on me is completely made up. People dying, people dating, news about their movies or music, absolutely completely fabricated. Made up. Fake news.
So you all favor censorship over people expressing themselves and letting readers decide on their own? This is terrific news to reduce censorship, not a bad thing.
This is because nobody is afraid of Democrats the way they are afraid of Republicans, and the Democrat leaders have treated this fact as a point of pride rather than evidence of their glaring weakness and ineptitude.
Next mogul supporting „free speach without censorship” to enable more fascist moguls entering politics? „Money money money must be funny in the rich man’s world”. Disgusting!
Took this as a prompt to delete my Threads and Facebook accounts (which was 80% local people moaning about dog shit and the rest reminiscing about the 1950s and the good old days of rickets and Polio).
This is just Suckerberg announcing that he'll lick the arse of whoever is in the white house, as long as he can keep raking in more billions.
Are we really only minus twelve days into Trump 2?
On the other hand if they won’t fact check maybe more people should know that maralago is sitting on the biggest oil reservoir on the planet that would bring down gas prices to 3 cents a gallon. Many people are saying
Not just minorities. There’ll be more misogyny, more pro-life rubbish, more desperate „save the patriarchy” tripe and more attacks on women’s rights. Women are 50% of humanity, not a minority yet women are constantly bunched up with “minorities”. Mad world
I’ve already have… X to me has no value. It’s a platform for racists, fascists, misogynists, homophobes, Russian trolls and lunatics. No fun whatsoever.
Zuckerberg even said it himself that Meta will adopt a sort of crowd-system for monitoring quality of posts, similar to X, relaying on people to report inappropriate entries. We know how it works 🤷♀️ (it doesn’t)
How quickly they abandon any semblance of principles they have have previously claimed to have lived by. The rush to appease Trump is nauseating, yet totally foreseeable.
"get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender" if they've been restricting talk about these subjects that does sound like a good change then that undoes some antirationality antiscientific ideological suppression.
I haven't used fb regularly for a good fifteen or more years at this point. Every few years, I would attempt to go back so I could be in touch with family and friends, but the platform was worse and worse each time I tried. It's wild that your feed is now more junk than people you actually know
The reason that more right wing comments on Meta platforms failed fact checks is that more right wing comments contained misinformation or were rascist/homophobic/transphobic.
It's not left leaning bias. It's right wing f*ckery.
The fact-checkers they used were conservative rags that were providing cover for misinformation. Regardless, it’s a virtual monopoly and needs to be broken up and they throttled news and political posts leading up to the election, likely helping Trump get elected.
As a misinformation researcher, I expect the changes at Meta will DIRECTLY increase partisanship and harm, including political violence (read: people will die). We know that fact-checking works, even among Rep users! Yet...🤬
Billionaires are the ones ruining this planet and society, Zuck, Thiel, Musk - they are all out to make us apathetic so they can do whatever they want. Instagram/Facebook/ex-Twitter... we're just being flooded with right wing BS thanks to these men and its working 🤮
This is why I keep saying it’s not just four years. A nation of idiots is about to get a helluva lot dumber. Facts and reason will never win another election.
This is why I left meta last month. The fact that it’s going to get worse is disgusting. Most democratic countries have hate speech laws that meta doesn’t give a crap about. Ban meta and X.
I wish it were that simple. I rely on Facebook for things like my gaming group and my Buy Nothing group. But at least I can use only the groups and avoid looking at my feed.
Seriously. I've been on there since 2009. I have old messages from my deceased mother still there and lots of photos that aren't anywhere else. But not engaging as much does help because if I'm not looking at an ad, Facebook isn't getting money. Just leaving it. Check it every 6 months or so.
I agree, many businesses in my area use Facebook for updates to their businesses. My neighbors have a Group, it’s going to take time but it’s definitely a conversation I’m going to be having with others.
Threads can easily be deleted. I did it 2 weeks ago and I haven't thought about it since. I've always liked Instagram, but it's hardening and getting crueller because they've change the algorithm
More (shameful) anticipatory obedience. Corporate America (of which I'm an alum) is reaching new lows of butt-kissing. Does anyone stand for anything anymore... except making money? 🙃
Nope. It’s all about making money which is why all the CEOs are bending at the knee before they are even in office. None of them care about our country. They just care about getting richer.
Isn’t this the exact thing Musk did with Twitter after he took it over? That worked out well right? I guess Zuckerberg secretly admires Musk and wants to become him.
What do you expect after he tongued the royal tangerine rectum and oiled his way into the passage with his million, or two, of $‘s given in piety to trump, sell out traitorous shite.
After reading headlines like that, I always have to double-check if it isn't the Onion coming up with a worst-case, most-evil thing the corporation could do.
But yay - it's actually real 💖
Meta can't launch anything or make anything better despite throwing billions at everything so might as well ingratiate to the new government so they don't actually have to ever be successful at doing something since their first 3 years. Great, great, great.
I’ve pretty much stopped using Facebook and Instagram, but I enjoyed Threads, now that is going bye-bye as well! I’m SO tired of these corporate overlords bowing down to the FELON Trump!
It's already happening. I've noticed Instagram recommending "political" reels, usually consisting of videos of criminality and hooliganism. Stuff clearly designed to ferment a visceral reaction to the "types of people" committing these crimes.
They are going to do "community notes". In other words they are going to make people do their work for free instead of having to pay someone. It's amazing how billionaire will still find ways to nickel and dime people to death as if they needed more money.
Just quit all Meta products--they're all garbage and not good for your mental health. I left them and have had zero regrets, except that I hadn't left them sooner. But, it is never too late to improve your outlook on life.
I’ve deleted my Facebook app. Only keeping the profile so I can use messenger for a few friends I can’t contact otherwise, but no new posts from me until sanity returns.
All in life is sinusoidal and cyclic… we are in crisis but it’s not the end of democracy. The absurdity will end and era of reason will return. In the meantime let’s watch the train crash in a slow motion
After killing democracies in so many other countries and having the most gullible citizenship on the planet, perhaps it's time to give Occupied Mexico over to someone else.
In other news, Mark Zuckerberg is now the new spokesperson for Soul Glo. Do you have curls that want to glow? Get yourself, Soul Glo. 🎹🎶🎵🎸 Let Your Soul Glow
Seems to be where the moneys at.
I deleted my FB account in 2021 when election denialism and anti-vaccine posts were at an all time high (at least at that point). People on that platform seem to love the rage-culture, all you can do is bail if you want to keep your sanity.
Facebook is a cesspit of edgy boomers, hopeless millennials, semi-useful hobby groups and an ok marketplace that's also riddled with scams. I wish this platform would die soon.
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#KissTheRing
#ZuckKissesTheRing
#ZuckTheCuck
No offense but if you have one of these you support him. You’re a part of the problem.
There has to be an alternative, there is always an alternative:
https://myspace.com
Sad he will ruin instagram too.
https://bsky.app/profile/theguardian.com/post/3lf5scel5n52p
There's a lot more money in the viral spread of bulls**t than in facts. That it's evil and contrary to the public interest is par for Zuck's course.
Leave the post-truth autocratic social media infosphere now. You can't win there for the simple reason that they own you entirely there, inasmuch as "you" exist there.
Own yourself. Move entirely to Bluesky or any other open public standard AT social media server.
Let billionaires be afraid instead of famous.
It was helpful but I always check information I come across. I don't rely on social media for facts/news. I learnt to think for myself and do my own research.
Isn't it just thousands of bots and my mum?
Brexit is a prime example.
Are we really only minus twelve days into Trump 2?
Now if half their users bounced out of disgust for Meta’s actions… maybe the advertisers slip away too.
And no amount of hair / pube grafting will soothe help alleviate that situation
I need to leave Twitter, because it makes me so sick. They are all trying to ignite literally a war.
They always come for the Jews eventually.
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/18/instagram-facebook-child-sexual-harassment
It's not left leaning bias. It's right wing f*ckery.
I had kinda forgot tbh
Check out the research and what we can do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGPPFKlOIM8
People leaving because of culture war bullshit? Meta: Even more culture war bullshit...
Run for the doors !!!
But yay - it's actually real 💖
Who’d have thought…
(* because FB was also/already a toxic project to begin with)
#EatTheRich
The truth doesn't matter, only lies and money makes these people happy
The headline to this could just as well read:
Library trombonist and stale ham sandwich Mark Zuckerberg announces end to fact-checking programme at Meta
Not sure yet if this means a good thing
I deleted my FB account in 2021 when election denialism and anti-vaccine posts were at an all time high (at least at that point). People on that platform seem to love the rage-culture, all you can do is bail if you want to keep your sanity.
Are they actually secret, though? Or just a regular court requesting companies to obey the law?