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[-] OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 3 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

As if it wasn't obvious enough that nazi posters have special protected status on social media platforms. The report buttons do nothing against them.

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

Now That Is What I Call A Headline


These pages and individual creators posted content that appeared to be in clear violation of Facebook’s own hate speech policies. Nonetheless, they were able to earn money on their posts through the platform’s “Content Monetization” program — which is invitation-only.

Meta should’ve been under no illusions about who they were paying to drive engagement on the platform.

Yet I'm sure that's exactly what they claim. [insert South Park BP Oil Sorry meme]

BTW:

Facebook’s monetization program can be quite lucrative, though it’s unclear how much each of these pages made individually. In 2025, Facebook doled out nearly $3 billion to 16 million accounts, the reporting notes. The platform periodically discloses data on these monetized accounts, which has been collated into a searchable database by the tech accountability non-profit What to Fix.

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Meta’s “financial model is to reward content creators who get engagement, and as we know, the best way of getting engagement is to produce rage bait, extremist material, aggravating material: anything that will get people upset and arguing is the best way to get engagement.”

That tracks.

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

Imagine what his ancestors would think of Zuckerberg when if they could read this.

[-] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 18 points 2 hours ago

Underscoring how much Meta has dropped the ball on this one, even X — owned by Elon Musk, who performed two suspiciously Sieg Heil-looking salutes back in 2025 — has banned The Noticer for violating its “hateful profile policy.”

Not just Nazis but Nazis that make other Nazis squeamish.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 hour ago

i would be surprised if they wouldnt, because they only ever push right wing material on FB.

[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 27 points 3 hours ago

Man, this really isn’t the future I was picturing when I was growing up, but here we are.

[-] quarkquasar@lemmy.world 17 points 3 hours ago

"The Internet of the future will be amazing! People will use it to voluntarily enrich their minds, and freedom and peace will reign!"

Actually: Nazis

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 44 points 4 hours ago

The best kind of content for engagement is hate. You get users angrily defending both sides, stacks of comments, reposts (both in support of, and "OMG look at what they're saying), the whole shebang.

Meta has learned that promotion of hate content pays off handsomely on those sweet sweet engagement metrics that shareholders love.

So of course they're going to pay the hatemongers for content. Even when their own content policies ostensibly forbid it. Because that's what makes line go up and they'll do anything to keep that happening.

[-] Sims@lemmy.ml -2 points 52 minutes ago

Nazism have gotten a deliberate revival in the western information sphere.

We had the same celebration of Nazi c*nts in Canada, where Trudeau pulled out an old Ukrainian Nazi, and let him be paraded in their parliamentarian chambers - together with Zelensky oc.

If we go further back, we see that a throng of nazi's from old Germany/Europe was saved/relocated and protected by the Western psycho Oligarchy, that was just waiting to trigger them again later.

We even see that many of the current unelected top EU elite have families that have close connections to this archaic and disgusting ideology, through parents, or grandparents.

We see techlords that have WAY to close connections, and families that openly express similar attitudes.

What is especially interesting, is that the situation in Ukraine was escalated by US through local Nazi groups that were also nurtured since 1990'ies by the US/CIA, and we see how Ukraine is controlled by Nazi groups today (they all have Bandera and Nazi signs everywhere and their nazi groups vocally confirms it despite being told to hide it now).

My bet is that Meta worked closely with US oligarchy, to manipulate the western population towards accepting nazi attitudes, as something more normal, and hopefully for them, nurture a new breed of nationalists ready to kill others for the Zuck and the Epsteins..

[-] Sims@lemmy.ml 1 points 47 minutes ago

For other hardcore investigators out there: This site is by Danish Sociologist and researcher Lars Jørgensen: https://homosociologicus.com/history-of-20-21-century

Very high quality in general.

[-] kirisamemarisa@lemmy.eco.br 63 points 5 hours ago

"Such speech may be offensive to many, but it is not Meta’s role to police offensiveness" what??????

[-] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 19 points 4 hours ago

Oh that's the actual headline lol.

I thought it would be like they paid some people with some ties to fascist groups but some plausible deniability...

But no. Full mask off.

[-] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 21 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

There's a greater entity that controls society that is beyond our political systems.

There will eventually be a purge of anyone that lacks a certain level of loyalty.

I wish there was a way I could articulate this without sounding crazy. Essentially look at gangstalking... There's people telling the truth but the truth is purposely laced with controlled conspiracies to make the people that hold truths look crazy. Discernment of truth and conspiracy is key and it's such a psychological mind fuck that even the people that are gangstalked get lost in it and eventually lose themselves.

This can't be fixed by utilizing traditional methods our systems of politics are built upon. That's not a call for action... But a call to understanding the gut wrenching reality of the situation. Because it seems like genuine authentic humanity is in checkmate.

In a way, it's also kind of blatant if you look back at the past 10 years and how nothing seems to socially make sense in a natural organic human way. Like orchestrated social event planning to manipulate psychology to lead to a certain path. (Look into generations of warfare, specifically 5th and 6th iirc.) (*)

Something has humanity in the palms of its hands, and it's completely detatched from any semblance of authentic natural law or "God". ...and like I said previously I believe it's beyond what regular people perceive to be America, Democracy, and Government. It's not simply about trump and the right, or the left anymore... That's effectively a distraction. It also might be a transnational effort.

(*) Fifth-generation warfare (5GW) is characterized by non-kinetic military actions such as misinformation, cyberattacks, and social engineering, focusing on manipulating information and perceptions rather than traditional combat. It represents a shift in warfare where the battlefield is often virtual and the adversaries are not always clearly defined.

Sixth-generation warfare (6GW) is a contested idea that focuses on targeting an opponent’s cognition—perception, belief, and decision-making—rather than just territory or networks. It is described as using artificial intelligence and autonomous systems across multiple domains (land, sea, air, cyber, and space) along with “cognitive operations” and algorithmic decision-making.

...I could go on... One of the biggest things within our control right now might be ICE and datacenters. Tldr... Datacenters are for their surveillance and ICE isn't just going to be used for immigration issues. It's all there to see and it's easy to see once you see past the bullshit marketed theater drama they push to pull your heart strings. Emotional people are easiest to control.... That's why they keep the left and right pissed off.

[-] Sims@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Don't worry. You sound perfectly sane to those that have spent any time investigating the big movements in global society. Good work..

[-] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

I think what's happening is everyone is operating entirely for their own self interest, and after awhile those interests start syncing up. So there's no conscious conspiracy, but people are working together towards a common goal.

It would be more comforting if it were a conscious conspiracy, at least then there would be a goal set by conscious people. But I don't think there is actually anyone at the wheel just all of the parts of a machine working together while we drive off a cliff.

Social media is definitely used to control people and yeah making people hate is the way they're controlling people. But it's a mess of foreign interests and moneyed interests. Foreign interests don't want societal cohesion in their adversaries to weaken them. Moneyed interests don't want cohesion so we can't get it together enough to tax them and regulate their businesses. So they promote radicalization and demonization of centrists and disgusting politics on both the far right and far left to keep everyone divided.

[-] l3mming@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

This was very well put. Thank you.

[-] eicker@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Facebook spent years claiming it couldn’t control what its platform amplified: Apparently it gets much easier when it’s time to write the checks.

[-] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 16 points 5 hours ago

I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you! Ok not even a tiny bit.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social -1 points 5 hours ago
[-] iamthetot@piefed.ca 10 points 4 hours ago

From the article:

Hate, unfortunately, sells. Right-wing extremism researcher Kaz Ross told ABC that Meta’s “financial model is to reward content creators who get engagement, and as we know, the best way of getting engagement is to produce rage bait, extremist material, aggravating material: anything that will get people upset and arguing is the best way to get engagement.”

It’s another example of how quickly Meta dropped its once-stricter content moderation policies when Donald Trump returned to the White House. Shortly before his second inauguration, Meta loosened its standards around hate speech, particularly on topics like gender identity and immigration, two of the far right’s favorite issues.

[-] Sims@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

It's much bigger than just corporate 'profits' ! This is the US/western oligarch Class pushing the world to the brink of WW3, only because they are trying to hinder China and others from eclipsing them and thereby taking away the exorbitant power they have commanded for several hundred years, while colonizing and exploiting the world..

Meta and the Zuck are colluding with the US Epstein Class to manipulate the entire 'western' hemisphere of people where Meta/facebook are present.

This is psychopathy/manipulation on a civilizational scale, and the Zuck and all his Epstein buddies will need to pay the consequences of that at some point.

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