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Still getting familiar here. Are y'all blocking random accounts that follow you?
January 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
paliforniadreaming.bsky.social
So, I signed up to BlueSky a while ago but never learned the platform. Today, and this post, seem like a good place to try again...
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 5:25 AM