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On January 7, 2025, Meta announced sweeping changes to its content moderation policies, including the end of third-party fact-checking in the U.S., and rollbacks to its hate speech policy globally that remove protections for women, people of color, trans people, and more. In the absence of data from Meta, we decided to go straight to users to assess if and how harmful content is manifesting on Meta platforms in the wake of January rollbacks.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I'm not convinced that much of it is real. Many accounts have to be fake. Surely people can't be as stupid as they appear. I think it's AI's funded or designed to be so stupidly biased.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately people are that dumb if not dumber, but also yes there are tons of chatbots that are sowing anger and division usually in favor of conservatives. Weird how Elon was talking about how many bots are on Twitter and has completely stopped talking about it.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The CEO is a genocidal zio. USA is a hate group. What else do people expect?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

surprised pikachu face

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I look forward to the day when the people wake up and drag the oppressors into the streets.

[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago

Tbf, having a central authority dictate the truth to you ain't so great.

Neither is having classes of people who you aren't allowed to offend.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Tbf, having a central authority dictate the truth to you ain't so great.

I don't think the phrase "third-party fact checkers" (plural) implies a central authority.

Neither is having classes of people who you aren't allowed to offend.

Facebook can't stop you from offending people. What they can do is make it slightly more difficult by disallowing slurs, etc.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

This is why I’ve switched back to the old internet. Chat like irc/matrix for social interaction. RSS for information. And webrings for browsing the personal garden websites that used to constitute the internet before social media took over. It’s been great.

The good internet magazine has been writing about this and is my inspiration

As well as the internet history podcast.

I mean look at what social media took from us. Have fun exploring that webring and following link after link to new web rings and personal gardens. I love it. Reminds me of the early 00s

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Working as intended then?

[-] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago

There’s no speech police in the real world, you don’t need it online either.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

That is the most simplistic, uneducated opinion on the subject that is possible to make. You should be ashamed.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

If that’s the case, it should be easy enough for you to come up with an actual argument against it.

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