There is only one correct answer: stop using Facebook

Why wouldn't they, Suckerberg already bent the knee and kissed the ring. This was an investment by him and these rallies are reducing the value of his investment so he is doing all in his power to slow them down. This has been the identical behaviour of large corporations since world word II when they saluted Nazis because they thought Nazis were going to win.

The best answer is to reduce/stop your usage of websites like facebook and shitter. Yeah I know there is still whatsapp, instagram, google services, android phones etc etc And as they acquire more and more of social media, it becomes hard for a particular individual to completely get off the services these companies provide. But you can pick your battles and atleast remove those which are not really essential to your day to day life.

It blows me away when I meet leftist activists who refuse to stop using corporate social media. The common refrain is "its where everyone is" or "no one uses [insert any decentralized and federated service]".

You cannot liberate yourself, or the rest of society, when you actively use the tools of your oppressors.

Meta appeared to take down a social media account

Meta didn't "appear" to take down the social media account, Meta took down the social media account.

It's not magic.

You see the same thing here, on Reddit, in forums, they always convince themselves that they're doing the "right thing" whilst doing the wrong thing.

I'm guessing that opponents of "No Kings" mass reported.

A good post/group should piss people off. But mobs gonna mob so mods gonna mod

You demand answers? The answer is pretty obvious: Zuck wants there to be a king.

They're not the only ones.

Reddit stole the r/NoKings subreddit and has locked it out. They claim it's up for adoption as of 5-months-ago but will of course never cede it to the organizers of No King's.

ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN etc., have barely mentioned it, and it doesn't remotely come up in Google News save for a sparse few pages of local news stories.

The only good news from representing my area is that while the protest was half the size of past ones, general support from people on the road was much higher with much less dissent.

'We demand answers'???? Are you joking???

Zuckerberg is practically glued to trump side like a fashion accessory.

Fediverse for freedom!

There were protests all over my city yesterday and I can find barely any coverage. I even looked at Reddit, which was flooded with No Kings pictures back in March, and there was barely anything for the events yesterday. Definitely sus as hell.

The answer appears self evident. Don’t use Meta and that includes INSTAGRAM.

Meta is a national security threat.

Oh random election rules that changed all at once?

It's like 2024 again. This is part of the reason so many of us are here on Lemmy or BlueSky or whatever, we need to figure out alternative means of discussion.

Yeah, anyone surprised the empire strikes back? Come on the Brain rit app is gonna get political

This is pretty awesome. It will force people to use platforms that are ACTUALLY secure, like Signal.

Meta, in conjunction with the US government, is going to make it harder to surveil protesters. How elegant!

A mere blip. You don't think the whole "No Kings" folks are stupid enough to just rely on Facebook, do you? Only trump and his minions would be that stupid, but they're stupid for truth social and old twitter.

I would have thought the answers would be self-evident.

Meta/Facebook has literally had political dissidents killed in other countries. Do not think they will hesitate to do the same in their own. Specifically, they gave up GPS/location information on dissidents trying to work together against the government. They were killed. Facebook knew exactly what would happen to them and could have told the dictator to pound sand, but then they might not be allowed to operate there.

Don't use popular social media like Facebook, X, Reddit, or Discord for any kind of protest. They will always bend the knee to the 'kings' you're protesting against. Every fucken time.

This is the very least shocking thing about Tech Bros. I remember laughing right in the face of someone that told me they had to be on Parler because "Big Tech" was so liberal that they kept canceling conservatives and shadow banning them, etc.

I asked what kinds of "conservative" things they were posting on "Big Tech" that supposedly resulted in that?