Meta to end Fact Checking on Facebook.

[Gloxina]

Who still uses facebook?

A loooooooooot of ppl.


Older folks. We don’t take it seriously but the ppl with money (usually older ppl) be spending crazy money ordering shyt off FB. And the way we might be on IG, Snap, TT, Twitch or even still YT, these ppl be on FB watching “reels”, videos, all that crap.

Ppl making crazy social media money off Facebook. All those comedians we might catch off IG, they made BANK off Facebook first. That’s what many of us don’t know.


That’s why this is a big deal.

 

[Seoul Gleou]

I think they should all be heavily sanctioned or busted up.

So obviously I'm in support of any restrictions or punitive actions against TikTok. That seems like a great place to start.

Lol then wtf are you arguing for. You also want them to be equitable in how they treat these apps. Clearly they're not.

 

[Umoja]

They're desperate to do anything to get their numbers up.

The typical Facebook experience now is people using it to look up people they knew, then reaching out to them so they can communicate OFF the platform or they're using the marketplace to buy and sell things and after they've made their money they dip.

People aren't staying on the platform unless it's to argue about shyt. They know this and that's part of the reason why they wanted the AI profiles. A bot can argue forever and the time you're spending arguing on the platform=opportunities for advertisers to sell to you.

Eg. You're a maga cac arguing with what you think is a liberal, and you're getting owned in front of an audience. On the corner of your screen you're seeing ads for trucks, tacti-cool gear, and other things signaling military or police style masculinity. To soothe your ego, you'll buy these products and then the next post you make is of a mag with the caption "how i communicate with liberals". You get likes and comments on your post and the cycle begins anew. If you crash out and get yourself or someone else killed, that's not facebook's problem.

It will continue to be a boomer radicalization platform. Young people aren't on Facebook, but people who aren't literate on the internet are.

Which is the thing I find concerning.

I remember when Facebook was at its peak. It was actually enjoyable and useful.

People played games on it. It was used to connect with people in similar circles to you, used to arrange events etc.

Somewhere along the way, they gutted the application of the things that made it fun. They had to know that people would leave which means they found greater value elsewhere.

With the AI users they are looking to push through, my obvious fear is the end goal is social engineering.

 

[The War Report]

Zuckerberg is such a piece of shyt.

 

[Wild self]

You are not very bright. Mass disinformation causes mass hysteria which causes genocides. "Free speech" in America always means anti-Black hate speech.

The GOP is going for the kill, to keep people misinformed and keep them dumb so that there won't be any type of uprising or conservatives losing their seats.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Kissing the ring…

Told yall

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Zuckerberg is such a piece of shyt.

I actually had hopes for him during Trumps last term, they beefed

Now


If you can’t beat em…

 

[DeuceZ]

Even added Dana White to the Board imagine being a billionaire and still being soft

 

[FINALE]

Just so we're clear

- Apple's been listening to and spying on us and is paying 95 million (pennies to them) for getting caught
- Meta admitted they were pressured to lie about and have influenced elections
- Google developed A.I. to identify and kill people

but Tik Tok is a national security threat and will be banned in 12 days.

can i get more info on the google ai thing?

 

[FINALE]

Every social media platform that uses algorithms to promote content that can potentially be "liked" and shared by hundreds of thousands or millions of people should have integrated fact checking features.

X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube etc. this is clearly a step backwards.

 

[FINALE]

Facebook was washed a decade ago. I haven't logged in in years. Can't imagine how trash it is now with a right wing slant

I have a burner account to use the Marketplace which they've basically monopolized but yeah I don't actually use the site anymore

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

So facts are political, now?

I mean when you chose Mr. Alternative facts to run a country it does set a precedent. a fact is whatever YOU FEEL it is

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

I have a burner account to use the Marketplace which they've basically monopolized but yeah I don't actually use the site anymore

marketplace is a feature of facebook i don't get how it's monopolized it was a separate thing before like i.g. is to facebook or something?

 

[FINALE]

marketplace is a feature of facebook i don't get how it's monopolized it was a separate thing before like i.g. is to facebook or something?

I meant monopolized as in if you want to buy something locally, your best bet is going to marketplace. If that wasnt a feature, I wouldn't have an account. Craigslist is basically an empty wasteland nowadays. Offerup is garbage.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Just so we're clear

- Apple's been listening to and spying on us and is paying 95 million (pennies to them) for getting caught
- Meta admitted they were pressured to lie about and have influenced elections
- Google developed A.I. to identify and kill people

but Tik Tok is a national security threat and will be banned in 12 days.

Just so we're clear:

TikTok has been doing the first two as well. They log users keystrokes, access clipboard data, and abuse location tracking to surveil individuals, including journalists. They got caught spying on journalists from Forbes and the Financial Times.

They're also not transparent about how their content moderation works. They censor content critical of the Chinese government. They censored videos about the Hong Kong protests, the Uyghur genocide, on Taiwan independence, and on Tibet. They also tweak their algorithm to promote disinformation or influence public opinion about Russia and China. They did it early on during Russia's invasion of Ukraine too.

And not to sound alarmist, but it's obvious why they are seen as a national security threat being a company based in China after all. There's the fear that given how company ownership and the Chinese government relationship works, the government could compel them to hand over user data or force them to push even more blatant state-approved narratives. Do I support this? Not really, no. I think instead of singling out TikTok, we should go after every social medial platform that engages in such abuses, whether they're from the US or not. They have all mishandled user data and allowed foreign influence operations and disinformation campaigns on their platform. The concern should be about data privacy and transparency across ALL platforms, not just one. But I'm not naive.

Having said that, I don't support banning TikTok. That's not really a solution.