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Meta is getting rid of fact checkers. Zuckerberg acknowledged more harmful content will appear on the platforms now (edition.cnn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They aren't just getting rid of fact checkers, they are also allowing “allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like ‘weird.’” So they are saying it is completely okay to call trans or gay people mentally ill because their existence is "political".

This article doesn't even fucking mention that. At the bottom it says they're changing some rules about "gender" but not what those rules are or what those changes mean.

This is insane.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Bet they won't like us calling Republicans weird deranged psychopaths

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Zuckerberg going full nazi... That's one of the many reasons we can't have Mastodon and Threads in federation

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Mastodon doesn't have any fact checking either.
Not sure how that would work, but it may be something worth exploring.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's a great point you made. As the fediverse grows it will become much more harder to control... The good thing is that the suggestion algorithm of Mastodon is more based in the community you build by following others

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i think the only way it could work is with the community notes model, but perhaps with more of a “your choice” fediverse flare: perhaps your instance can bless specific users whose notes get higher pirority etc

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

“Yeah it's gonna be full, 100%, Covid-batshit anti-everything bullshit. All day every day.” Zuckerberg said. “Yee fuckin’ haw you poor bastards!” He added from the sunroof of his speeding limousine.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So more Luigi support?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No one has actively died because of this decision. I don't consider this Luigiable. It is, however, grounds for abandoning the platform like y'all should have done a decade or more ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yet.... unfortunately this will spread hate to stupid and hate and stupid do God awful things together.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Y'all?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

In general, yes.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the problem with the whole "glorification of a murderer" thing. Nobody gets to dictate who gets killed except the murderer. If everyone decided to do the same, it's not just the people you think "deserve it" who would be killed.

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

The difference is the overwhelming support he's getting as well. Jury of your peers and all that.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And when the person getting support kills someone you care about? Still ok with that jury? Or even if they don't have support after - wtf is that going to do for the dead person? By celebrating the act, you just encourage the same behavior, and you don't get to deliberate over who the next target is - by the time you can voice an opinion, it's long past mattering.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I already noticed a significant uptick in bullshit "news" sources in my feed over the last month. Facebook has become a cess pool. Either most of the people on my friends list aren't posting anymore or else my feed is being deliberately diluted. I'm only seeing about 1 friend post for every 20 ads.