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Zuckerberg knows which way the winds are blowing in the US Capital and is ensuring he is aligned with them so to avoid political blowback on his company. I sus

Zuckerberg knows which way the winds are blowing in the US Capital and is ensuring he is aligned with them so to avoid political blowback on his company. I suspect the changes to the fact checking / free speech will align with Trump's political whims. Thus fact checking will be gone on topics like vaccines, trans people, threats from immigrants, etc. While the well documented political censorship at Meta affecting Palestine will remain because it does align with Trump's political whims... - https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship-palestine-content https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship... - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/29/meta-censorship-palestine https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/29/m... - https://theintercept.com/2024/10/21/instagram-israel-palestine-censorship-sjp/ https://theintercept.com/2024/10/21/instagram-israel-palesti...

bamboozled 2y ago
It’s at times like this we realise how much better our situation would be if the internet remained decentralised and not consolidated into a few “social networks”. We messed up.
- cpitman 2y ago
  How would decentralization make a difference here? Fact checking only makes sense when a platform has people with multiple different beliefs about what is true. If people can self-select into their own bubble, then it doesn't do anything, does it?
  - bamboozled 2y ago
    It would make a difference because there would be no political influence over broad public opinion. Right now, the rich leadership of these social media networks are kissing the right wing ring, so get ready to be right winged for at least 4 years. It's not healthy. If we didn't have single owners of these platforms, then none of this would be happening.

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Zuckerberg knows which way the winds are blowing in the US Capital and is ensuring he is aligned with them so to avoid political blowback on his company. I sus

by bhouston 2y ago

bamboozled 2y ago
It’s at times like this we realise how much better our situation would be if the internet remained decentralised and not consolidated into a few “social networks”. We messed up.
- cpitman 2y ago
  How would decentralization make a difference here? Fact checking only makes sense when a platform has people with multiple different beliefs about what is true. If people can self-select into their own bubble, then it doesn't do anything, does it?
  - bamboozled 2y ago
    It would make a difference because there would be no political influence over broad public opinion. Right now, the rich leadership of these social media networks are kissing the right wing ring, so get ready to be right winged for at least 4 years. It's not healthy. If we didn't have single owners of these platforms, then none of this would be happening.