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So as this site continues to pick up steam, it’s really feeling like an echo chamber. Hopefully…people learn from past election cycles and care more about winning than perfect candidates and using the exact right vocabulary. But alas…so far on this app, I don’t see that happening.
January 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
minnesotamitch.bsky.social
Yes, Zuck is screwing up big time but my god can we please have a discussion about the definition of genocide?
caseynewton.bsky.social Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Jan 8
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project. "I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."
January 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
minnesotamitch.bsky.social
Yeah not so sure about this app. Definitely seems to be an echo chamber…and just because I agree with it, doesn’t mean I think not hearing other angles is a good thing.
December 7, 2024 at 9:22 PM