The policy change follows years of Meta and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot of political convenience toward President Donald Trump and his base. Following Trump’s second electoral victory, Meta quickly changed its speech rules to allow for anti-transgender slurs and dehumanization of immigrants, The Intercept previously reported, aligning the company with longtime MAGA culture war grievances.
Asked about the new restrictions on the word “antifa,” Meta spokesperson Erica Sackin pointed to a March transparency report that noted the company would “remove QAnon and Antifa content when combined with content-level threat signals.” The report does not explain what those signals are. Meta did not respond when asked if the company had discussed its antifa speech rules with the Trump administration.
Meta largely outsources the enforcement of its Community Standards rules to low-paid contractors whose interpretation and application of the policies can vary. The company’s automated, algorithmic content moderation systems are also famously glitchy. This combination can result in erratic censorship, particularly when political ideology is classified as violent or terroristic.
Looks like Zuck is all in and has no choice but to support evil, because if/when the evil collapses, so does Zuck. Must be stressful for him as history has shown that this behaviour eventually catches up to them. Sadly, some make it too old age and run entire countries before it catches up which causes a lot of unnecessary suffering.
social media has been twisting itself to protect conservatives and right wing political terrorism since damn near the beginning.
Its where their bread and butter are. Right wing idiots following right wing demagogues spouting right wing bullshit are the ones that dont run adblockers, that click all the ads (Especially if its for merchandise for their chosen political team), and generate disproportionate amounts of money.
Agree. The dumb people out of necessity need to be in groups and those groups are lead by narcissists/ psychopaths / sociopaths who then weaponize the groups ignorance to exploit them for their own gain while using shame and worse to keep the group inline. It leads to the world being led by the wrong people and while we have managed fairly well by most metrics, it is an absolute thorn in the side of humanity that carries existential risks. I sure hope we can change things so that the smartest, kindest people lead instead. Maybe as the power of the group is certainly being eroded in part due to AI allowing smart individuals to climb quietly higher into leadership roles that are not forceful but rather truly leading. We will see. I am hopeful change is coming or we end up destroying everything. Seems like it is on a knife’s edge and has been since we invented nukes.
He is a Roman history buff, he should know better than to chain himself to an empire in freefall.
Dunning Kruger Effect is strong in Zuck.
It’s not in freefall, it’s thriving.
Were past the point of no return. I’m not holding my breath on the midterm results.
It is for the Billionaire class but not everyone else. Would you not agree?