Facebook incites violence and enables dictatorships. Facebook destroys democracies.
Burn Facebook to the ground, fill the wreckage of its data centers with radioactive waste and bury the whole mess in a crypt for 100,000 years.
"We didn’t grasp that Facebook, the website that millions of people still believed fostered community and connection, had supplanted traditional media. We didn’t realize that those “content creators,” with their crude, sometimes lewd, manipulative posts, now passed as political pundits, even as journalists reporting “facts.” Those accounts were at the core of a propaganda machine that bullied and harassed its targets and incited its followers to violence. The same thing happened with Stop the Steal in the United States, anti-Muslim riots in India, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and many other events around the world. Facebook didn’t only provide a platform for those propagandists’ speech or even only enable them; in fact, it gave them preferential treatment because anger is the contagious currency of Facebook’s profit machine. Only anger, outrage, and fear led to greater numbers of people using Facebook more times a day. Violence has made Facebook rich."
Facebook incites violence and enables dictatorships. Facebook destroys democracies.
@alienghic
We saw an Australian become or at least try to recruit Nazis on Fb Groups and then moved to Ukraine to claim land that apparently belonged to a grandfather(?) whose painting he used to claim he had Royal Blood. After moving to UA he opened up a travel agency and remarried. All in 2015/16.
When I read this I realised what I'd seen was not just some nazi hobbyist:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220710181649/https://time.com/5926750/azov-far-right-movement-facebook/
re: Facebook incites violence and enables dictatorships. Facebook destroys democracies.
Eew.
I think a bunch of people need to find a less hate filled way to feel like they have value.
re: Facebook incites violence and enables dictatorships. Facebook destroys democracies.
@alienghic
Yes, and yes he also despised Moslems. I didn't talk much to him, but I observed quite a bit because Groups were designed such that it felt rude to leave if someone put you in it.
re: Facebook incites violence and enables dictatorships. Facebook destroys democracies.
Once twitter has gone the way of the dodo, perhaps Facebook is next, hopefully the good people on Facebook will join here,
re: Facebook incites violence and enables dictatorships. Facebook destroys democracies.
The fact people think Zukerberg is a Genus, says a lot about their level of IQ.
re: Facebook incites violence and enables dictatorships. Facebook destroys democracies.
"Musk, SBF, and the Myth of Smug, Castle-Building Nerds
It’s a trap."
This newsletter goes on comparing and contrasting Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried and how the stories told about them as people hid any thought about whether or not they actually knew what they were doing.
The writer argues that the legend is used as a shortcut for actual analysis, as people are really drawn to the idea that there is some visionary who understands the world better than they do.
re: Facebook incites violence and enables dictatorships. Facebook destroys democracies.
@alienghic @zleap @dsfgs It's as if huge companies exerting power over people was just as bad as tyrannical governments, don't you think?
re: Facebook incites violence and enables dictatorships. Facebook destroys democracies.
People who sign up to digital skills courses are not taught there is choice they are taught facebook, Or it seems this way at least.
re: Facebook incites violence and enables dictatorships. Facebook destroys democracies.
@zleap @dsfgs
Facebook laid off about 10% of their workforce and is continuing to dump large amounts of money into their likely misguided metaverse plan.
They also have the same structural problem twitter now has, where Zuckerberg is a dictator who is not accountable to anyone.
He set up a 2 tier stock structure which gives him complete control over the company. Even though Facebook is allegedly public.