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"right-wingnuts are the top 10 shares every single day every day on Faceboook so we no longer wanna hang out on it" I'm not sure which Facebook you're using, b

"right-wingnuts are the top 10 shares every single day every day on Faceboook so we no longer wanna hang out on it" I'm not sure which Facebook you're using, but I certainly don't see anything shared by 'right-wingnuts' going very far. In fact, it's usually silenced and removed almost immediately. I actually had to stop using Facebook over the past couple of months because of all the left-wing nut job ideas that seem to have become mainstream like the hundreds of thousands of protesters around the US that spread Covid by not wearing masks and are now trying to blame business owners and Republicans. Science and facts seem to now be a thing of the past. It's also very difficult to have any actual opinions about any current events, especially of you are not African American and disagree with any of the current narratives the mainstream media is attempting to shove down our throats. Sure you can have an opinion, but if the wrong person sees it, they will attempt to get you fired from your job and shame people into de-friending you. It's the 2020 Salem witch trials.

andrewshadura 6y ago
"We have reviewed the content you reported and found it doesn't go against our Community Standards." This is the response I get 99% of times when I report blatant racism, xenophobia and conspiracy theories.
sp332 6y ago
In May, The Daily Wire was the #7 most-interacted-with publisher on FB. https://www.newswhip.com/2020/06/top-publishers-facebook-may-2020/ https://www.newswhip.com/2020/06/top-publishers-facebook-may... They have more interactions per article than CNN and Huffington Post combined.
rektide 6y ago
> I'm not sure which Facebook you're using, As I said, we're not using it anymore. Ben Shapiro & BlueLives Matter were 6 of the 10 most reshared pieces of content yesterday & none of the other top 10 are anything but polarizing trashy antagonistic regressives either. https://mobile.twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1281000727226101760 https://mobile.twitter.com/kevinroose/status/128100072722610... I would be willing to admit, this kind of content does not feature a lot in my personal experience when I did use Facebook. But in general, I'm not inclined to log in & stay logged in, as it doesn't add continuous value. And I don't want to give advertising-dollars to a platform that does, day after day after day, reliably, serve to brainwash America with these reactionary attention-hungry wolves. I'd point out that the Salem witch trials you raise judged people based on fiction (there are no witches), & killed them. Losing some friends & your job for being a demonstratively terrible awful person does not seem like a fair comparison: there is real guilt, & the consequences seem survivable. I'm not sure that the ability of any one incident to become a lightning rod of attention is ideal, but it felt like being an absolutely terrible person for too long had no consequences: I would like to see more safety nets, more forgiveness, more healing, but there being consequences for actions is an enormous improvement over where we were, and frankly the consequences seem reasonably inline & reasonable in a vast majority of the situations at hand. I'm sorry that this seems so overwhelming for you. I hope you can find some peace.

andrewshadura 6y ago

"We have reviewed the content you reported and found it doesn't go against our Community Standards." This is the response I get 99% of times when I report blatant racism, xenophobia and conspiracy theories.

sp332 6y ago

In May, The Daily Wire was the #7 most-interacted-with publisher on FB. https://www.newswhip.com/2020/06/top-publishers-facebook-may-2020/ https://www.newswhip.com/2020/06/top-publishers-facebook-may... They have more interactions per article than CNN and Huffington Post combined.

rektide 6y ago

> I'm not sure which Facebook you're using, As I said, we're not using it anymore. Ben Shapiro & BlueLives Matter were 6 of the 10 most reshared pieces of content yesterday & none of the other top 10 are anything but polarizing trashy antagonistic regressives either. https://mobile.twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1281000727226101760 https://mobile.twitter.com/kevinroose/status/128100072722610... I would be willing to admit, this kind of content does not feature a lot in my personal experience when I did use Facebook. But in general, I'm not inclined to log in & stay logged in, as it doesn't add continuous value. And I don't want to give advertising-dollars to a platform that does, day after day after day, reliably, serve to brainwash America with these reactionary attention-hungry wolves. I'd point out that the Salem witch trials you raise judged people based on fiction (there are no witches), & killed them. Losing some friends & your job for being a demonstratively terrible awful person does not seem like a fair comparison: there is real guilt, & the consequences seem survivable. I'm not sure that the ability of any one incident to become a lightning rod of attention is ideal, but it felt like being an absolutely terrible person for too long had no consequences: I would like to see more safety nets, more forgiveness, more healing, but there being consequences for actions is an enormous improvement over where we were, and frankly the consequences seem reasonably inline & reasonable in a vast majority of the situations at hand. I'm sorry that this seems so overwhelming for you. I hope you can find some peace.