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Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony

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Re: Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony

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Post by linebug2 »

llm_nerd wrote: post #14
cies wrote: post #7

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No, he did not, and you're repeating some misinformation bit of nonsense that you find in anti-vax ignorance echo chambers. When he first learned about mRNA vaccines he misunderstood them and was concerned about vaccines "basically modifying people's DNA and RNA to directly encode in a person's DNA and RNA basically the ability to produce those antibodies". This is technically ignorant to the point of being nonsensic…

even the godamn idiot robert kennedy gave the vax to HIS kids. His kids mustn't die. But the rest of us plebs should rot, right?

Re: Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony

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Post by morissette »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #48
bronco21016 wrote: post #39

I haven't paid a lot of attention to this issue but after reading some of the statements in the article I can't help but agree with Tech Oversight's conclusions. It's just anecdotal but recently, when mindlessly scrolling reels, (yes, bad enough already) I came across a reel that was unquestionably sexually explicit (in USA, I think policy varies on locale). I reported the account and reel because after clicking on t…

I know exactly what you’re talking about and it has been driving me nuts for years. They constantly go up there and say “it’s cool we totally have these amazing algorithms that solve the problem,” then when they don’t solve the problem they just shrug and go “well we’re just so big you can’t actually expect us to do what we said we would. We’re doing decent enough!” YouTube is another great example of this. Fine, be…

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Post by Larrikin »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #41
thunfischtoast wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When was the last time a rich and/or famous person faced actual repercussions for their bad actions? Actions that, would they be comitted by the lower 99,9% of the world, would yield at least a fine that actually hurts, or jail. Serious jail, not "house arrest" in a big mansion. Jail time that actually lasted to the end and was not prematurely lifted after 6 months? When the current systems are failing the solution i…

They threw Epstein in prison. Maxwell is doing time now as well. Bernie Madoff got 150 years, died in the same prison R Kelly is doing a 31 year stint in.

Black men are usually punished no matter how much money they have.

Rich Women have a lower threshold than rich white men, if their crimes hurt or have the potential to hurt rich people. Holmes was punished for defrauding the investors, not the people who took her fake blood tests.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony

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Post by llm_nerd »

ifyoubuildit wrote: post #59
llm_nerd wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While it's clearly rhetorical bombast and zero readers would assume I've actually polled every person in such a position, anti-vax nonsense is a thing primarily among America's bugeoning and incredibly loud idiocracy.

So basically you have a gut feeling that you feel very passionately, but that we have no way of evaluating. It might be just as likely that zero of the people in such a position took the vaccines for all we know. How is this somehow more enlightened than the idiocracy that you are decrying?

Ignoring that most, like Trump, just outright admitted it, simple logic dictates that reality.

When something has overwhelming scientific and medical evidence in its favour, and the alternative are a bunch of high school dropout conspiracy nuts cheered on by simpletons like Joe Rogan, odds overwhelmingly lean towards the connected and rich going in one direction. Like, this is so blatantly obvious that I find your scepticism laughable.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony

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Post by mystraline »

1over137 wrote: post #12
mystraline wrote: post #9

And we *know* why, because of billionaire. But lying in Congress IS perjury. He should be in jail for contempt, and then then personally tried for perjury. Its a felony with punishment up to 5 years.

But we're talking about the USA here. Was such a thing ever done to someone of analogous stature in history?

Absolutely, yes. When China's civil war with Chaing Kai-Shek happened, the communists won.

After that, landlords, business owners, and industrial owners were presented with an ultimaturm, of which many took. And that was to return to being a worker, or be jailed.

Given how capitalists amass wealth and options to evade all governments, this does seem like a valid solution.

A modern viewing is after Jack Ma (CEO of Alibaba) publicly criticized the monetary policy of China. He lost most of his standing, and the attempt of an IPO for his payments company. Note that he lives and is still CEO, just not as a Influential power in China.

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Post by u02sgb »

nephihaha wrote: post #20
raincole wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if one day when people hear "censored internet" the first country that comes to mind will be a western one (probably the UK, but the US is not off the table either) instead of China.

It already does for me because I live here. Keir Starmer is desperately unpopular and yet he wants to suppress why people do hate him. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/27/starmer-leas...

The existence of that article surely suggests there is no censorship of the information about his unpopularity?

Re: Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony

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Post by llm_nerd »

Izkata wrote: post #56
llm_nerd wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, he did not, and you're repeating some misinformation bit of nonsense that you find in anti-vax ignorance echo chambers. When he first learned about mRNA vaccines he misunderstood them and was concerned about vaccines "basically modifying people's DNA and RNA to directly encode in a person's DNA and RNA basically the ability to produce those antibodies". This is technically ignorant to the point of being nonsensic…

That refutation is ignorance of reverse-transcription enzymes. Our liver cells have been shown to do exactly that in a lab with the Pfizer mRNA vaccine. There have also been studies on long covid showing that some of them still have the mRNA in their system months after it should have broken down. These haven't been linked together as far as I know, but it's definitely plausible.

The liver cell thing was literally cancer cells in vitro, and reverse-transcription doesn't "change your DNA", or your RNA. Some liver cancer cells turning mRNA into cDNA has literally zero connection with changing the DNA of your cells.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony

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Post by input_sh »

bronco21016 wrote: post #39

I haven't paid a lot of attention to this issue but after reading some of the statements in the article I can't help but agree with Tech Oversight's conclusions. It's just anecdotal but recently, when mindlessly scrolling reels, (yes, bad enough already) I came across a reel that was unquestionably sexually explicit (in USA, I think policy varies on locale). I reported the account and reel because after clicking on t…

Facebook closed my report the same way when I reported a beheading. Like a literal, pre-AI, ISIS-era beheading.
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