Not even remotely the same. Being on Facebook actively funds fascism there is no other way to look at it.

The left are so anti left that they’re regressing so rapidly that women can’t even get an abortion anymore.

So the left is bad because of republican policies? Are you real?

Yeah the people become awful on it. But then there is also the data collection and the active political manipulation by the platform itself. Not to mention directly funding Zuckerberg and his plans.

I never was on Facebook, I saw it as a bad idea when it came out. But I understand how many people including friends or family use it. I am pretty blunt: they support Trump, they support billionaires, they support fascism. Both figuratively and literally. Zuck just purchased 11 homes to make yet another compound. The money is from people participating. There is no mincing of words on this, particularly now. Fortunately people are beginning to see that they are getting less of what they asked for (friends and family updates) and that seems to be annoying them enough to at least consider other options. Its harder for them to understand how much of their information had been slanted or even hidden from them.

I know it is hard. Thanks for sharing that you work in a field were you could see how manipulation and non critical thinking can make everybody seems so crazy. COVID was so full of lies and nonsense it was unreal. I lost a lot of people that I thought would never believe in Qanon or conspiracy and I think I can tie a straight line back to Facebook.

The next target is getting people off Instagram, and those folks are dug in even harder.

The dichotomy between the left and right on these kind of issues are probably more economic than anything else.

The people I know that freaked out about these sort of things were typically maga types. Lower income, lower education, and relied on social media for all kinds of news, human contact, and such.

Meanwhile most liberals and conservatives that didn’t, lived more comfortably with higher career and education levels. This isn’t even really a left wing vs right wing kind of thing. Even the conservatives I knew that had higher education and career accomplishment freaked less out about Covid and social media “censorship” too because they could just do without.

If you can live comfortably and it doesn’t affect your living, you tend to not rock the boat

there need to be a lot more stuff

but that is just the thing, you need to make the stuff. That is how it grows.

Did you all forget Insta is just Facebook for people under 65?

Same parent company. Same priorities. The same people pushing AI gen antarctic ice wall and horse dewormer content on your memaw are deciding what you see too.

Yes, clearly the handful of people with no power that advocate for Socialism or Communism are what is wrong with our country now.

I think you are confused and are perhaps really wondering why centrists keep getting moved to the right.

Both dominate political parties in the US are fascist in nature. You have the authoritarian fascists and you have the neolib fascists.

Picking on the left is just a convenient scapegoat at this point. It is low hanging fruit and is pretty pointless.

"That screen was incorrectly applied as a result of an automated process and had already been removed," Meta communications specialist Andy Stone tweeted.

Hey, can you people please stop bloating my feed with junk please?

I think you forgot to say the reason why you think the left has more money than the right.

Funny how such glitches never happen to nazi posts.

So does purchasing groceries at Walmart, but many Americans have no choice in that matter.

I do appreciate that you had a more empathetic comment for the guy whose girlfriend is still on Facebook. Thank you for having the civility to not call her a fascist sympathizer to his face. But don't worry, your true feelings are safe with me.

This is not how you make allies btw.

Ads? Are they not talking about user generated content?

We are way beyond finding allies. Call it what it is.

Does Walmart actively distort your news, your information, your opinions? Does it select what you see to push an agenda? Does it require yo to provide information about who you are and who your friends are?

I have a distaste for people shopping at wallmart, but this is beyond that.

Remember, there is nothing Facebook provides that anyone needs. It is a choice.

This is a direct quote from the article

Meta is actively pursuing government contracts for uses of its supercomputer it's putting online next year and it's AI investments. They are becoming a defense contractor essentially. To acquire contracts during this regime, I'm sure they will give any backdoor and facial recognition assistance the Pentagon asks for.

Being redundant to say this. People are actively posting pictures of themselves, their families, and their locations continuously and sending them to a government defense contractor. Posting their activities, hobbies, who they interact with, their food, et cetera.

If news companies cared about people's privacy, they would be broadcasting that on every network warning the population in my opinion. But that would piss off the U.S. government, and they don't want that.

I asked which approach requires more money, not who has more. You said the left doesnt want to spend that money, ok. Maybe the mass of liberals collectively has more money, maybe. Not the left though. And the network cooperation part? Which agendas are being priviledged by the recomendation algorithms in social medias?

Meta is not your friend, despite how addicted to it everyone is

In fact, it seems like all Info and Tech companies really hopped in line with Trump like fucking right away and I’m worried that not even that critical mass of 3-4% of the country is even able to protest, much less if that many people even want to

Companies don't have morals, if Trump disappeared tomorrow and was replaced with Bernie Sanders or whatever they would swap right back.

I really wish we had an end-to-end encrypted option where posts are only shared and accessible to people you've added. Some of us don't wish to post our personal photos to everyone on the internet.