Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content (FB, Insta, Threads)

[Rob Ray]

Thought this might be worth a thread on its own, inspired by Mark Zuckerberg's blatant "which way the wind's blowing" announcement of reforms to the Facebook algorithm.

Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content

Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads

www.theguardian.com

Watch as the fascist groups that never actually left are allowed to be official about it again rather than posting sarcastic/misleading comments next to endless Reels of random brown people, while the far left unaccountably remains somewhat buried.

♬ Oooohh say can you see, by the firms' turns far-right,
What so proudly seig heiled, seeing which way Trump's leaning

I reckon loads of big companies that were never terribly bothered in the first place like Disney will almost certainly jump similarly, quietly do away with diversity projects etc. They'll all have seen the vote and be calculating trajectories.

 

[editor]

Jeez:

Zuckerberg said Meta would also “get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse” and “work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more”.

PS: I'm going to edit the title to make it a bit more self explanatory. I don't know what 'corpo' is!

 

[Rob Ray]

Just a shortened "corporate", I've probably been reading too much cyberpunk/transhuman sci fi recently.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Corpo was always the worst marx brother

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

All of the news services are caving to Trump. Anyone watch MSNBC lately? Their morning hosts literally went to Maralago a couple of days after the election. ABC paid out millions to Trump because they called him a "convicted felon" when they could have easily fought. I've been feeling for a long time that I'm living in a dystopia and now, I'm sure.

 

[skyscraper101]

ABC paid out millions to Trump because they called him a "convicted felon" when they could have easily fought.

WTF, that's literally what he is? This is madness.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Corpo was always the worst marx brother

Good in Last of the Summer Wine though.

 

[PR1Berske]

This is knee-bending ring-kissing bullshit of the lowest order. Zuck is part of the right-wing blob who has always, implicit and explicit, believed that the Internet is effectively a separate nation, free from jurisdiction, free from corporations and regulation. A world with its own currency, its own citizenry. It's grotesque.

 

[Flavour]

This is terrible

 

[skyscraper101]

The full explainer video is here.
On Instagram, of course.

 

[Nylock]

Oh well, once the deregulation of FB hits the UK, I'll be jumping ship. Not that I think I'm relevant to FB or anything but I already find it can be pretty insuffereable at times. I dread to think how bad it'll get when they fully 'Muskify' it....

 

[Brainaddict]

This is going to be an absolute binfire. Depressing that they know their poor moderation in the past has got lots of people killed but they're just going to let it happen again.

 

[PR1Berske]

I never thought I'd say this, the Nadine Dorries' baby "Online Safety Act" might be the saviour here.....

 

[Skinny Ethel]

What the world needs is a rogue dirtynuclear bomb drones with stuff nasty bangbangs at his innauguration. Bring on armageddon i say av had enough of this arselicking of this orange cunting fuckpig rapist racist fraudulent cunting bastard.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Jeez:



PS: I'm going to edit the title to make it a bit more self explanatory. I don't know what 'corpo' is!

Singular of corpses.

 

[editor]

The full explainer video is here.
On Instagram, of course.

Fuck's sake - the fawning comments on that post are truly stomach churning.

 

[Cloo]

'We're going to replace suspected left wing bias with definite right wing bias, because that's the only correct bias'

 

[editor]

Oh and in case you missed it, Meta is going to populate Facebook with AI bots.

AI-generated user accounts are flooding Instagram and Facebook, according to their parent company, Meta. The company is rolling out a wide array of AI products, including a tool that helps users create AI characters on Instagram and Facebook. Meta hopes to attract a younger audience, in a face-off with key competitors like TikTok and Snapchat. “We expect these AIs to actually exist on our platforms in the same way that [human] accounts do,” Connor Hayes, vice president of product for generative AI at Meta, told the London’s Financial Times. The new developments from Meta join an online tool called AI Studio, launched in July to allow users to make their own chatbots. You can clone yourself, or create an artificial persona online, using text-to-video software.

Meta Opens Floodgates For AI-Generated Accounts On Facebook, Instagram

AI-generated user accounts are the new normal for Instagram and Facebook parent, Meta. Here's how AI influencers and artificial accounts are evolving.

www.forbes.com

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Trump must stink the dirty orange cunt. Fake tan sweat and shit. Nothing will cover that.

 

[lazythursday]

The only thing I use Facebook for is to stay aware of stuff that's happening locally - events, proposals, etc. And obviously it's a nightmare for that because every post is filled with angry right wing pensioners. But there is just no alternative, no other way of keeping on top of this stuff any more. The local 'news'paper is a complete click bait joke.

 

[danny la rouge]

The full explainer video is here.
On Instagram, of course.

“The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritising free speech”.

Oh, is that what they feel like? I thought they felt like a depressing lurch into Chaos Fascism.

 

[Dogsauce]

Freedom to organise the attempted burning out of hotels housing refugees. Hurray for freedom!

 

[Elpenor]

The only thing I use Facebook for is to stay aware of stuff that's happening locally - events, proposals, etc. And obviously it's a nightmare for that because every post is filled with angry right wing pensioners. But there is just no alternative, no other way of keeping on top of this stuff any more. The local 'news'paper is a complete click bait joke.

Same.

 

[danny la rouge]

[ trendy teacher sits on desk ] Hey, guys. I know you all think fascism hits different and woke is cheugy. So finna give Insta a glow up, no cap. TFW you wanna racism at yo fam? Bet. You can high key racism all day. Dank.

 

[editor]

I'm just waiting for the day when they start to come for sites like this...

 

[Elpenor]

I'm just waiting for the day when they start to come for sites like this...

who is they?

 

[lazythursday]

I'm just waiting for the day when they start to come for sites like this...

is that not the online safety bill?

 

[editor]

who is they?

The right. The Powers That Be. The people that shut down dissenting voices when society - or those with power - lurch to the right.

But I'm just thinking out aloud and describing nothing more than a personal hunch.

 

[editor]

is that not the online safety bill?

That's one worrying aspect, yes.

 

[Cloo]

The more you read it, the worse it gets. Talk about the banality of evil....