What a total scumbag. "Daddy what did you do when the dark ages returned to the West?" "I made lots of money son!" I hope your conscience is clear because the world is watching you.
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!
Dumb as heck. Time for governments to intervene with strong regulation - social media is a broadcast platform and should be regulated as such. Having moderation should be the first requirement.
Never had much respect for this Zuckerberg. Surprised a man of Jewish heritage is pandering to the right wing. I came off Twitter months ago, looks like I will be departing FB/Instagram now.
Let's take back the Internet from the global tech elite. The Internet never was supposed to be what it has become. It was a place for free ideas and open standards.
Let's work on making open platforms reachable for everybody and ditch the toxic oligarchy-driven platforms of the world.
Hasn't Facebook gone extinct a while ago? What's left? Instagram? That's just Twitter with more pictures? BlueSky and Mastodont can capture that audience.
As for WhatsApp, do we really need a singe commercial entity for global Instant Messaging? There are lots of open standards for that...
No wonder he's smiling thinking about all that money he's saving in salaries and it is thanks to Trump's new era of fake news, lies and disinformation.
“Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.& if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'“
Just disabled my FB account. Honestly, probably healthier for me to start to quit social media. This nudge just helped me. Social Media had great promise, but now it is just a brain washing machine and time waster. I'll stay on Blue Sky for a bit to stay in touch for now.
Quote from today's Meta press release: "Over time we ended up with too much content being fact checked that people would understand to be legitimate political speech and debate." in other words, Go ahead an keep lying, MAGA.
Facebook has been over for while now anyway, Social media is struggling the kids on Snapchat & TikTok don’t engage with the platform in the same way, it’s the older & first internet generation that keeps X and others going, you will probably see a rise in print media again similar to vinyl growth
I always thought libertarians often means “trying to sound smart and like I have a coherent ideology but basically I like whatever is best for me personally at any given time”. Zuck is one more tally in that column.
Well, of course. Is anyone surprised? Zuckerberg's character was never really about showing moral courage and contributing to the public realm. A consummate libertarian, he was only ever interested in looking after himself.
It's not "mob rule" if they introduce sth like Community notes that's well-working. It could be more effective than having a huge (rly this many?!) team of mods who intervene based on their opinions
Moreover, if there rly were "restrictions on topics like immigration and gender" good these r gone!
I'd bet you have no data backing up your subjective low-information opinions nor would be able to refute rational arguments against some of your at times absurd views. Censorship is for China, I think we can do better even if you don't like actual free speech.
Free speech should come with a sense of responsibility it doesn’t give anyone the right to express hateful, racist, sexually explicit, homophobic opinions or incite rioting. He allowed Cambridge Analytica access to psychological profiling, collecting & misusing data. Tech bro’s are menace to society
Billions of people use Facebook as their primary interface with the internet, particularly in the developing world. As bad as it is (and it is worse than you think), I don't see it going anywhere.
Facebook dwarfs Twitter/X by an order of magnitude. They aren't really comparable in terms of scale and as I said, Facebook has wider utility for a very large amount of people. Musk has expressed envy over this but it's very doubtful he will really make "X" into the "everything" platform he claims.
Musk has failed but don't assume that Zuckerberg will continue to succeed thanks to size alone. History is littered with examples of such hubris as too big to fail.
Something like Facebook is unprecedented in history, so while I would broadly agree with the principle of what you're saying, it's just not something we have any comparative experience of that can be drawn upon as a marker. If Facebook simply disappeared tomorrow, what would happen? Really?
Truth Social, Twitter and Facebook are now trying to occupy the same marketspace ("MAGA-friendly social network"). There is only room for one to survive, surely.
It's well known that Truth Social is losing tons of money. I suspect Twitter is, but Musk says otherwise :-) Facebook was profitable, but these chances could change that.
Twitter was never profitable im the first place, and its been tanking since. The only reason they are all running is that their Billionaire Owners see having a vassal to influence public politics for their benefit is a worthy investment
Just speeding up the demise of Meta. If it goes more like X, it'll increase the foothold/importance of decentralised, non billionaire owned social media.
@bsky.app > could we get a suite of apps to rival Meta? Bluesky instead of Threads, Pixelfed instead of Insta, @signal.org instead of WhatsApp. Some sort of collab between orgs to make you the go to anti-Meta?
I didn't say they were all the same, I said it is a literal contradiction for there to be an ethical billionaire. You cannot become that individually wealthy without having caused significant harm. I'd be curious as to who you think is an exception though.
I didn’t use the term ethical. And Mackenzie Bezos is is an example and yes, I know where her money came from. I understand all the various things that make having that much money a problem. I’m still not placing all the people in the same boat.
No, I did, but it's the relevant term. And even if she married into it, she is a direct beneficiary of exploitation on an industrial scale. That's a choice. It's blood money.
Strangle these platforms by disconnecting from them, and urging your friends and colleagues to do the same. @theguardian.com get more of your fellow outlets off of those platforms and over here. Your spend there is also fueling those hate funhouse mirrors.
Julian Assange: Freedom this time, no thanks to the media
It was the media, led by the Guardian, that kept Assange behind bars. Their villainy will soon be erased because they write the script about what’s going on in the world.
decent people should close their tiktok, X, facebook accounts so that billionaires understand that conspiracy theory social media are not welcome but they will just get that if their companies lose users and therefore they lose money that is the main goal for them- money.
They don't seem to get that we want our spaces curated, liars challenged, untruths excluded. Nice parks to visit, not the Wild West. Having to do all that ourselves might make for good clicking, but it's quickly exhausting, and, like Twitter, we'll vote with our feet.
Aqui no Brasil o facebook terá o mesmo fim que o X, aqui temos LEIS e homens que se faz cumpri- las pq Brasil ñ é quintal dos EUA e nem vai deixar que muleques venha desafiar nossas Leis .
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TBH content + engagement was bad, so it's no loss - this decision means it'll only get much, much worse.
Twitter account remains open only specifically to persuade the last few important nature, volunteer + Borough contacts to join Bluesky.
Let's work on making open platforms reachable for everybody and ditch the toxic oligarchy-driven platforms of the world.
As for WhatsApp, do we really need a singe commercial entity for global Instant Messaging? There are lots of open standards for that...
Everything on a perpetrator v victim axis.
Any ideology tends to ignore reason and analysis, sometimes even facts.
Guardian columnists up their own arse - out of touch with reality.
Best wishes.
Genuine opinion too 🙂
Best wishes
Why did I give Meta a second chance. 🤦🏻♂️
In 2025 Zuckerberg reminds us that often libertarian is just a polite way of saying fascist.
“f#<% you, I got mine.”
Might makes right.
Both are selfishly fascist.
Withdraw your accounts from X and Facebook as they are not trusted sources.
Any Person or company legitimizing or paying Musk should be deeply ashamed and the only way to stop his vile propaganda is to disengage.
Moreover, if there rly were "restrictions on topics like immigration and gender" good these r gone!
it’s not a good thing to get rid of those at all.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/22/business/facebook-content-moderators-kenya-ptsd-intl/index.html
I had to watch a film strip about the French Revolution decades ago in elementary school and it disturbs me to this day.
Hubris.
No individual or company is too big to fail.
Gavin Lewis
March 2017
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/22/mccarthyite-anti-semitism-smears-and-racism-at-the-guardianobserver/
MARK CURTIS
26 April 2021
https://www.declassifieduk.org/like-billionaire-controlled-media-the-guardian-misinforms-its-readers-on-the-uks-role-in-world/
The Guardian Revealed Itself in Sacking Columnist for Criticizing US Military Aid to Israel
https://consortiumnews.com/2021/02/12/the-guardian-revealed-itself-in-sacking-columnist-for-criticizing-us-military-aid-to-israel/
The Nauseating Hypocrisy of The Guardian as Julian Assange is Freed
https://azvsas.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-nauseating-hypocrisy-of-guardian-as.html?m=1
The Guardian: Accusers and Purveyors of Fake News
Part Four— Fake News in The Guardian, Improved Journalism in General and What That Could Lead To
Jan 10, 2018
https://megapad.medium.com/the-guardian-accusers-and-purveyors-of-fake-news-57e8026bb5da
The Guardian: Accusers and Purveyors of Fake News
Part Three — What Should Journalism Be and How Does The Guardian Fit?
Nov 30, 2017
https://megapad.medium.com/the-guardian-accusers-and-purveyors-of-fake-news-499f1e27ec2
The Guardian: Accusers and Purveyors of Fake News
Part Two — Complicity in Propaganda
Nov 23, 2017
https://megapad.medium.com/the-guardian-accusers-and-purveyors-of-fake-news-4345d6e140d2
The Guardian: Accusers and Purveyors of Fake News
Part One — Big Data and Fake News: How and Why Their Impact is Being Exaggerated, and Why This is Dangerous
·Nov 16, 2017
https://megapad.medium.com/the-guardian-accusers-and-purveyors-of-fake-news-789e44c46577
A year late, the Guardian finally permits us to use the term 'genocide'
Nov 08, 2024
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-year-late-the-guardian-finally
It was the media, led by the Guardian, that kept Assange behind bars. Their villainy will soon be erased because they write the script about what’s going on in the world.
JONATHAN COOK
26 June 2024
https://www.declassifieduk.org/julian-assange-freedom-this-time-no-thanks-to-the-media/
Two Centuries Of ‘The Imperialist, Warmongering, Hate-Filled Guardian’
2nd June 2021
https://www.medialens.org/2021/two-centuries-of-the-imperialist-warmongering-hate-filled-guardian/
Why would the Guardian employ a Tory prime minister’s spin doctor as its new communications chief?
MARK CURTIS
22 August 2024
https://www.declassifieduk.org/amber-de-botton-from-downing-street-to-the-guardian/
‘Please pass on my deepest fuck you.’
Rivkah Brown
18 October 2024
https://novaramedia.com/2024/10/18/discontent-deepens-among-guardian-staff-over-palestine-double-standard/
‘Kath takes the Board of Deputies very seriously.’
by Rivkah Brown
12 March 2024
https://novaramedia.com/2024/03/12/how-the-guardians-editor-in-chief-caved-to-pro-israel-pressure/
MATT KENNARD and MARK CURTIS
10 September 2019
https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/
The UK’s leading liberal media outlet appears to act as a recruitment agency and public relations platform for Britain’s largest spy agency.
MARK CURTIS
8 March 2024
https://www.declassifieduk.org/why-does-the-guardian-write-so-many-puff-pieces-on-g-c-h-q/
https://www.demandsage.com/facebook-statistics/
Dump you face book page
With a fuck you zuckerberg!