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I stopped letting Meta take my attention once they started making my feed fill itself with "reccomended" "you might like" pages and profiles that I at no point ever clicked on or searched for.
before, my feed was exclusively my friends content, and pages I followed.
now, they fill the gaps with evangelicals, gambling, and idiots posting chinese and russian war propaganda.
yup, get the fuck out. im done.
I am pretty much okay with freedom of speech, sunlight is the best disinfectant, etc., etc. The alternative is driving this kind of rhetoric underground where they have the benefit of acting like they're being oppressed as "truth-sayers" or whatever.
I happen to think there's some truth to some Conservative arsehole's recent statement that pockets of Islamic migrants in the UK are incapable of culturally integrating, which is being lambasted as xenophobic hate speech despite the fact it's demonstrably true. I saw a schoolgirl in the full veil yesterday, I'm sorry but I don't think that's in keeping with progressive values, whether you want to call those "Western" or not. Talk about referring to women as household objects.
Then again, I haven't used Facebook for years. Maybe they're pandering to their user-base.
It's just as much freedom of choice to want to wear a full veil as it is to not want to wear one
It's not really a free choice if the price of not wearing a veil is child abuse.
“It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms,” Meta’s newly appointed chief global affairs officer, Joel Kaplan, wrote in a blog post outlining the changes.
This is the same Joel Kaplan that participated in the brooks brothers riot stopping the recount of the ballots during the bush v gore election in 2000 where the republicans stole the election forever changing the course of American history.
You can now refer to women as property on Facebook and they are A-OK with that! But you will, and it has happened to me, catch an instant ban if you say all men are trash.
Maybe it's just me but I don't think people should be saying or be allowed to say either of those two things. Neither of those two things are good for anyone.
I suppose that was ops point
Facebook is a shitty place to be. In related "no shit, sherlock" news, the sun is still hot.
I agree but the problem is that there is a huge percentage of the population that use this dumb site as a way to collect and gather all their information about the world. The problem is not so much that fb changed, the problem is that so many people rely on it.
Delete it
Ok but wasn't this already a thing ?
So let's talk about Peter Thiel, right?
Isn't greed a mental illness too? Besides it's one of the seven deadly sins. So much for those christian-wannabes.
I'll bite. Meta, obviously, never actually cared about free speech. Zuckerberg also said that they are about to flood the platforms with AI bots to increase engagement. I'd say getting rid of fact checkers is only to avoid having their own bots automatically brought down by their own moderation. The rest is a façade
More exploitation of the seniors who are the few people left
Astute observation. I'm glad I stopped using the platform years ago but it seems like they're focused on trying to innovate their tech more than the actual engagement.