I believe this is the first time a Canadian politician has addressed the algorithm as a thing controlled by a very small amount of people instead pretending it's some magical thing.
This should apply to every social media platform that suggest content to users.
Big thing is that the dev is very active and responsive to feedback. Which is really useful given Lemmy is in its developmental phase for the most part.
Unlike Sync which while good is largely abandoned thses days.
I saw a tiktok video talking about how Instagram starts the redpill/incel stuff early for the young people then they become failures in life at which point they push the guru stuff for "guidance".
EU and even China has at least made a attempt of holding these companies accountable for the algorithm but US and Canadian government just sat there and did nothing.
He had a bit of quiet spell during the India foreign interference in the Conservative leadership things a couple months back. Funny enough foreign interference report is suppose to come out next week.
You forgot Peterson, Rogan, Alex Jones and essentially every turd of a human being.
Instagram is probably notably worse, I have a very establish account that should be very anti that sort of thing and it keeps serving up idiotic guru garbage.
Tiktok is by far the best in this aspect, at least before recent weeks.
Lots of places cropped out Elon arm yesterday and just called it a "questionable arm gesture".
Headline source:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/musk-canada-poilievre-trudeau-influence-1.7426954
In the past week alone, Musk has dipped into Canadian politics on his social media platform several times; endorsing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, showering him with praise, reposting his tweets and applauding his speeches and media interactions.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24511890
The fact that this is a real image is infuriating
20-01-2025. This is a real image
At the end of the day it was all pandering in the first place.
If it isn't a legal obligation then all these mega companies environmental, social and even fact checking activities was essentially just a line item under the marketing budget.
I like to block Trump glazers and quite few other accounts of that nature.
Actually think the the Lemmy style user lookup where you can quickly see what stupid comments people have posted in the past to be rather useful for sifting out the low quality trash.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Act_(Canada)
Usage
The caucus member ejection provisions were first used when the Conservative caucus voted to eject Derek Sloan on January 20, 2021.[9][10][11]
In February 2022, the leadership removal provisions were invoked for the first time by the Conservative caucus following the 2021 election, which used it to trigger a leadership review against, and remove, Erin O'Toole. During the review, 45 MPs voted to retain him against 73 who voted for his removal.[12] Deputy Leader Candice Bergen was selected as interim leader.[13][14] O'Toole's removal marked the first time since the Reform Act was passed into law seven years prior, that a party caucus formally challenged and dismissed its leader.[15]
Given that Elon is part of a hostile government declaring a trade war I think it's fair that we also treat Starlink and Tesla as possible national security threats.