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John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2025
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i like that people are leaving zucc platforms but why is that happening suddenly? did he do something exceedingly fascist? did i miss something?
Zuckerberg hung out with Trump at Mar a Lago and attended the inauguration, then got rid of Facebook and Instagram's fact checking, relaxed their rules on posting hate speech and discrimination, ended Meta's diversity initiatives, removed bathroom facilities at meta for transgender and nonbinary employees, made speeches in defence of Trump and expressed gratitude for finally being able to have "a productive partnership with the United States government", while removing communications channels for employees and threatening them with being fired if they talked to media about any of this. He has gone full MAGA.
This article covers some of it: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-trump.html
thats par for the course for facebook, no? they have always helped the fascists, in my country they literally helped elect one. they helped spread misinformation as if they already didnt care, and the diversity stuff feels just about the same brand of fake to me, so much hate in there.
beggars cant be choosers though so i guess im just glad people are actually mad this time.
They've gone full mask off, which is why there's the sudden backlash. The hate speech rules now include a section that explicitly says that it's okay to call LGBTQ people mentally ill. They're the only group with a specific carve-out in the rules saying that it's okay to post hate speech about them.
This is the first time zuck has gone full ass-kisser with curly hair and a gold chain, though
Huh? Source? What country?
brazil. it was a cambridge analytica sort of deal, where the bad guys paid facebook to milimetrically target fascist propaganda, antivax sentiment, and a bunch of other bullshit to vulnerable people.
they were happy to oblige and even interfered when we tried to regulate this away, a few years later. i hear they abuse it even further on SE asia.
google did different but similarly heinous garbage to us.
edit: you might have a hard time finding it through all of bolsonaro's accusations because hes a piece of shit who laid a lot of it too, but you might find something about the "milicias digitais" or how the far right has been paying off social media to have fascism be favoured in searches and recommendations throughout the country. oh and they still have plenty of influence because of these garbage apps.
He only now was able to catch up with all the news with Meta moderation from a month ago. He is only a couple weeks back on air.
He decided to kiss the ring. People don't like that.
AFAIK no, but it takes awhile for everything to sink in, and hosts like John Oliver only have so much air time.