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Meta just flipped the switch that prevents misinformation from spreading
- malshe 2y agoFull title: Meta just flipped the switch that prevents misinformation from spreading in the United States
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- jauntywundrkind 2y agoI'd be more ok with platforms being utterly asleep at the wheel & investing nothing in the social network, if they weren't so hostile to researchers academics & civics folks getting the data to do their own analysis so we could at least have some chance to see & at least abstractly wrestle with the malignant powers that be on the internet. Sure the creeping propaganda abuse hate-mongering & disinformation would be unchecked but at least we could have some truth & reconciliation on a macro fashion. But this new mode of "free speech" is speech being allowed to spread with no accountability, no chance to understand what is said across the many "town squares" within the many social networks. The networks are giving their all to insure no one anywhere has any macro view of what's happening, what the situation really looks like. They've so effectively blinded us to what's happening.
- malshe 2y agoI think Zuck was always against any scrutiny. After Cambridge Analytica scandal he was forced to provide access to researchers. But as the stock price went up he started unwinding. Now with Trump in power he is simply reverting to what he wanted FB to be all along. Facebook was complicit in Rohingya genocide in Myanmar and I think it will get repeated in many other countries. For all its problems X is still not as widely used as Facebook worldwide.
- apothegm 2y agoFlipped it on? Or off? Edit: off.