Context:
Remove liberal global affairs, replace with Republican: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrw785585wo
Donation to Trump inauguration and more context: https://apnews.com/article/meta-facts-trump-musk-community-notes-413b8495939a058ff2d25fd23f2e0f43
Trump appeasement. Looks like he’s still pissed he was banned. Meta looking desperate.
Honestly didn’t know Facebook even had a fact-checker system. They are pretty explicit in their mission to sow discord and disinformation, it’s basically their whole business model
They are pretty explicit in their mission to
sow discord and disinformationmaximize profits and minimize costsWith Trumpism taking over the federal government wholesale, there’s little reason to even pretend to cater to the minority party. Unless there’s a shift during the midterms, of course. Then Zuck will rediscover religion and insist the content on his site needs to be moderated by liberals again.
But its all just patronage. These moderation jobs are either soul-sucking gig work or no-show positions for the local professional political leadership. The work isn’t a profit center so it only exists as a means of assuaging regulators or cultivating cronies. Facebook’s real work is in harvesting data for Nat.Sec and gulling suckers with ads. Nothing else matters.
I entirely agree, except I don’t think it has anything to with maximizing profits for Facebook. If it did, then the logical thing to do is whatever gets the most people on the site the fastest, not do something that instantly alienates a massive amount of people. It does have everything to do with maximizing profits for those in charge of running the Facebook show, though. Then it makes perfect sense to align the company with whatever political regime can promise the most bloody money for the new yacht and underage ‘entertainment’.
Also, I genuinely think the Zuck gets off on being a slimy little cunt and is probably really excited right now. Facebook has always been a little too quick to go down the scummy road, even for capitalism.
the logical thing to do is whatever gets the most people on the site the fastest
With over 2.1 billion (with a B) active users, they’ve saturated the market. The game now is to avoid regulatory constraints and to maximize revenue per-user, which means degrading the experience in pursuit of the most lucrative individual users.
It does have everything to do with maximizing profits for those in charge of running the Facebook show, though. Then it makes perfect sense to align the company with whatever political regime can promise the most bloody money for the new yacht and underage ‘entertainment’.
A big part of the Facebook model is predicated on national surveillance paying them for access to their data. That’s what gives the 2.1B active users real tangible value - they’re subjects of surveillance. Sucking up to the people who cut the national security checks is a necessary part of that model.
Also, I genuinely think the Zuck gets off on being a slimy little cunt
I’m sure plenty of folks on Facebook do. But Zuck himself seems to have largely checked out, not unlike billionaires like Bezos and Gates, now that he’s got more money than he could spend in a thousand lifetimes. He’s off living his best life with his unlimited financial resources, and only pops in to make announcements like this as an investor celebrity.
Threads app today is flooded with tons of obviously false news posts about Zuckerberg and Meta like zuck is dead, zuck is gay, zuck is californian arsonist, zuck sold meta, zuck is trans - all kinds of nonsense shit people posting, with pictures, because okay yeah, the US doesn’t need fact checking so lets blow it up through the roof then.
And its the perfect response to Meta’s bending the knee and bootlicking.
What’s next for that absolute cesspool?
Looking forward to the next pandemic where vaccines aren’t even developed because the Facebook rabble demands politicians provide us all with crystals and horoscopes instead.
We also not getting any real medications prescribed, but weights, raw meat, and some grifter’s vitamin supplements.
This truly is a new age of Enlightenment for humanity!
I’m guessing this is a cost thing. You don’t need to pay for fact checking anymore.
… still obnoxious and pushing us towards a dead echo chamber internet. Get ready for AI personalities voting on community notes.
Nope. It’s a US election, Trump appeasement thing. Meta replaced Nick Clegg (a UK liberal) with a Republican (Kaplan) for global affairs lead and this came out a few days later. A few days before they donated $1m to the inauguration ceremony. Prior to this, there was talk of Trump being pretty annoyed with Meta.
This is all shameful capitulation and political appeasement. They really teaching politicians how to do politics.
In order to avoid political confrontation, they sold all those that wanted a safe space.
No, this is to make it even easier to spread disinformation.
I was in the trenches of Twitter’s community notes, useful notes were downvoted in favor of funny ones, and also had a bot/brigading problem.
By design, just like Meta’s decision.
unless you can opt out of community notes like you can turn off comments then what’s the point? i’ll just stop posting (i pretty much already do)
