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The Day Instagram Blocked Democracy

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Re: The Day Instagram Blocked Democracy

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Post by Matthyze »

My (quite uninformed) take is that it was a show of loyalty from Zuckerberg or Meta to the Trump administration. Tech oligarchs have been trying to curry favor after Trump's win. Due to Meta's previous stance on fact-checking, Meta might have been asked to demonstrate its loyalty.

Re: The Day Instagram Blocked Democracy

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Post by celdon25 »

> "The Day"

So it was fine when they were censoring republicans, but only became "the day of infamy" when blocking the left...

Zero acknowledgement or mention in the article about the history of censorship against the right.

I thought they believed in equity?

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Post by bsnsxd »

I sincerely hope this attempt of a technocrat oligarchy to be the downfall of social media as we know it, we lived without them, everyone has been on and off at some point even after joining in, even younger generations, so everyone knows we can easily unplug with net positive impact in our lives. And that's all it takes for their power to vanish like smoke in the wind.

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Post by null_investor »

Mark Zuckerberg is a lizard, he made the right call to bow to Trump.

Now Meta will continue to destroy the world's mental health until the situation worsens more.

Trump was a hope that this Meta non-sense would end, but both became allies and forgot about the so many studies that shows how it's a toxic digital product.

It will now take longer for humanity to understand that Meta platforms are worse than cigarettes, but doesn't come with any labelling.

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