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[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I'm so fucking tired of this acceptance people have where they treat Meta and Facebook as separate entities. Where, at one point, it was just one entity called Facebook. Facebook doesn't have a parent company, because it's just Facebook. Meta only came into existence because Mark was forced his hand in some monopoly issue or something.

And big surprise, Facebook dictating who can and can't be on it's platform.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

mmm, it'll be a cold day in hell before I call them Meta, it's a very transparent attempt to psychologically reset our opinion of them, as if we're all stupid.

It's insulting how thick they think we are.

They're Facebook. Call yourselves "We didn't do evil stuff we're good guys honest" I still won't believe you ...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's exactly the same thing with Google. Pretending it has a parent company to give this idea that we're not to blame Google for any of the bad shit it does, let's blame this non-existent entity that Google constructed to take some of the heat off.

Except people don't directly refer to Alphabet or make mention of it as much compared to Meta/Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

They made another kind of guy for you to get really mad at.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

To me it is ridiculous that companies can even own other companies. The only real purpose of doing so is to play shenanigans with regulations, obfuscate responsibility, and generally deceive.

And for the "corps are people" crowd, owning people is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I don't get it. No one says, "fuck Alphabet for how they're handling YouTube". No one says, "fuck Alphabet for baking spyware into Android and Chrome". No, they criticize Google for that stuff. Why is Facebook different?

I don't think the people doing it now are bots, but I swear the Facebook-Meta separation had to have been started by astroturfing. People seemed way too eager to accept the rebranding and act like Meta was somehow different from Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Facebook/Meta love facilitating genocide, they do it on the regular.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

This is what, their fourth?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Don't worry guys, they banned TikTok so we're gonna be fine /s

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure Meta has been shadow-banning all news related content for years now, and anything related to Palestine is news.

They want you to share cute puppy photos and birthday invitations.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That’s not true. Fox News gets through just fine.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Fox News has tried to claim in court that some things they do are "entertainment".

BTW: there are no official regulations about what is news.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

This is not new. A few years ago I was banned for using certain features on Facebook because of the photo of Palestine coins.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Meta is part of the genocide

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

No suprise, considering that CEO is zionist and CISO was in Unit 8200

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

No suprise, considering that CEO is ~~Jewish~~ zionist

You're probably not trying to be anti-semitic, but let's use more accurate and relevant terms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks, edited

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I strongly recommend the original source over any source that posts videos of Ben Norton and similar grifters.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Surprised no one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I'd assume content would fall into blanket ban territory because it contained heinous or trigger word phrases. I report antisemitic and heinous Maga shit almost daily and never once has one come back and said "we are taking action". It's always "this post did not violate any community blah blah".

Any reference on what is actually being restricted or silenced?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Damn, Meta chose a lane. You can't be spamming me with right wing bullshit while at the same time helping Biden win re-election.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Why do I feel like there is more to this story? These days you apparently can only report what supports your own beliefs.

Just to be clear I'm not taking a stance, I just think the media is more propaganda than news these days