Facebook Foregoes Fact Checking

[ZiprHead]

I'm all in.

 

[bilby]

I'm all in.

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Out of interest, how did that image get to you?

 

[TV and credit cards]

I'm all in.

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I never found the switch.

 

[Jarhyn]

Actually, it was Ge

(I, too, love it when I sometimes forget a snip when I hit "quote" and forget about the snip. No shade tho, sometimes I see it and just hit "fuck it" and post it anyway.)

More on-topic...

Some talking head is on what was on are 'liberal' network giving Trump credit for Israel.

I call bullshit.

I'm expecting the temple to be rebuilt at this point though.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I have been playing with the block and hide feature. I blocked LADbible. That was immediately replaced with ladbible australia. I mostly go on there now for about 10 minutes a day and do nothing but block and hide all content not directly posted by my known real life friends and the flood of disinfo and misinfo and glurgey shit never ends.

Yeah, none of the blocking systems have the concept of not wanting to see things like this. Hence when you block one head of a hydra the system simply picks another.

Facebook and youtube have always promoted false and misleading content. I noticed it with prominent grifters and conspiracy theorists at least a decade ago. You'd debunk them in their comments so the content creator just blocks you. You make a video debunking them and then they complain to Youtube or Facebook and the platform kills your account to disappear the debunk because the grifter/scammer/conspiracy theorist has lots of subscribers.

Yeah. They don't specifically promote false and misleading content, but rather are very vulnerable to manipulation by the producers of such content.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

It is interesting how the once uber liberal tech titans are seeing first hand how their extreme left ideology has negatively affected business to the extent they can no longer ignore. First it was Musk and now Zuckerburg both were far left but now rapidly moving right. I suspect the google brothers larry and sergey would have revised their business operations by now. Other than their monopoly is so air tight they can continue treating their customers shitty and get by with it until the cows come home.

They are rapidly kissing orange ass.

 

[Elixir]

It is interesting how the once uber liberal tech titans are seeing first hand how their extreme left ideology has negatively affected business to the extent they can no longer ignore. First it was Musk and now Zuckerburg both were far left but now rapidly moving right. I suspect the google brothers larry and sergey would have revised their business operations by now. Other than their monopoly is so air tight they can continue treating their customers shitty and get by with it until the cows come home.

They are rapidly kissing orange ass.

Yup. Trump can destroy them - or hurt them badly, at minimum.
Of course their endorsement and financial support of the person holding sway over both the judiciary and the legislature as well as the executive branch, is a matter of self interest, not that of Americans or “the economy”.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

It's a stark contrast from when I first arrived in Australia; The only Internet users were a handful of geeks, and a landline call to the UK cost a dollar a minute. I remember using 0055 to call*, so as to get a line good enough to hear the other party through all the pops and crackles of static.

Yeah. In the old days letters were the only way my wife could communicate with her relatives. Then came the occasional treat of a few minutes on the phone in the dollar-a-minute range. Now, it's been a long time since she has written a letter because the internet is free.