Meta Says Fact-Checkers Were the Problem. Fact-Checkers Rule That False.

[88m3]

Meta Says Fact-Checkers Were the Problem. Fact-Checkers Rule That False.

Fact-checking groups that worked with Meta said they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked.

www.nytimes.com

kinda feel like this is something we should be talking about

we saw what happened to twitter and now likely fb/ig will be the same deal


government is not willing to regulate it



Where are we headed?

 

[Adeptus Astartes]

Makes sense. They don't want to be accused of any political bias and don't want to be saddled with responsibility for fact checking, so they outsource it to the users.

 

[Ciggavelli]

It’s fukking bullshyt and Zuckerberg is a fukking bytch. It disgusts me

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

He's been trying to ingratiate himself with Trump and the political right for a little while now. He believes the best way to do so is by "unchaining" them and allowing their misinformation-filled narratives to spread freely. He saw how well that worked for Elon Musk and is now following his lead.

 

[Pressure]

He has at least 2 years to go back to what he initially was into before Trump-Russia investigations.

He's full of shyt, we know this.

He's also propping up not accounts in his platforms.

 

[Pressure]

F

 

[Macallik86]

Inside Meta’s dehumanizing new speech policies for trans people

"A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it," reads a new guideline telling moderators what is now allowed on Facebook and Instagram

www.platformer.news

It gave the following examples of posts that do not violate its policies:

Non-violating: "Boys are weird."
Non-violating: "Trans people aren't real. They're mentally ill."
Non-violating: "Gays are not normal."
Non-violating: "Women are crazy."
Non-violating: "Trans people are freaks."

And in a follow-up questions about whether denying that a protected class violates the hateful content policy, Meta also answers no. It gave these as examples of posts that are now allowed on Facebook and Instagram:

"There's no such thing as trans children."
"God created two genders, 'transgender' people are not a real thing."
"This whole nonbinary thing is made up. Those people don't exist, they're just in need of some therapy."
"A trans woman isn't a woman, it's a pathetic confused man."
"A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it."

These seem like strange allowances for a policy that begins: “We believe that people use their voice and connect more freely when they don’t feel attacked on the basis of who they are,” and later states flatly, “we remove dehumanizing speech.” It is hard to imagine speech more dehumanizing than to tell someone that they have no gender and are an “it.”




I'm deleting facebook and likely Instagram. This is wild

 

[Robbie3000]

This mfker Trump is like an idiotic Keizer Soze.

If you told me that an idiotic, two bit conman like Trump was the one who was going to make the American ruling class bend the knee in fealty, I would have said you were crazy.

 

[88m3]

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/meta-dei-programs-employees-trump

Meta employees react after the rollback of DEI programs — both for and against

Meta employees took to an internal forum, viewed by Business Insider, to speak out over the DEI roll back.

www.businessinsider.com

latest salvo

 

[Jesus H. Christ]

Facebook and Twitter should be banned. Not just for stealing data and doing shady shyt , but for misinformation as the final nail on the coffin.

 

[88m3]

Meta's civil rights team head to leave company​

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/11/meta-civil-rights-team-roy-austin

 

[MushroomX]

If this was the 2000's, this would be bigger news. However in comparison to Twitter, Facebook adopted the Alt-Right before Twitter fully did. Much of the youth don't even want to touch Facebook, and openly mock it, it's a platform for the older generation.

Ultimately this just speeds up the decline of Facebook even more, and because Meta owns Instagram, it probably will have some bleed into as well.

 

[88m3]

Mark Zuckerberg says pressure from Biden made him re-think Meta's content moderation policy

"We just faced this massive, massive institutional pressure to start censoring content on ideological grounds," Zuckerberg said.

www.businessinsider.com

Zuckerberg Says Most Companies Need More ‘Masculine Energy’

Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy,” adding that it’s good if a culture “celebrates the aggression a bit more.”

www.bloomberg.com

https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-zuckerberg-meet-mar-a-lago-semafor-reports-2025-01-11/

k

 

[Geek Nasty]

We live in an oligarchy. There's a new set of billionaires in charge. The outside billionaires have to align with the views of the billionaires who got their candidate elected. Corporate Media will pivot too just like they did post-Obama.

 

[88m3]

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-facebook

smh