Meta's pivot to the right sparks boycotts and a user exodus

[fncceo]

Zuckerberg isn’t the only Big Tech billionaire currying favor with the incoming president.

Strange… you had no problem with billionaires currying favor with the previous president.

 

[blackhawk]

Fact checkers is an oxymoron.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

“After Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of changes that shifted the company and its policies to the right ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, some users are fleeing the company’s platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

In the barrage of changes made in recent weeks, the company ended its third-party fact-checking program in the United States and said it would pull back on content moderation around political discourse. Instead, Meta will use a community notes system similar to Elon Musk’s X. Updates to Meta’s policy on hateful conduct include that LGBTQ people can now be called mentally ill because of their identities. Meta also disbanded its diversity, equity and inclusion team.

Zuckerberg isn’t the only Big Tech billionaire currying favor with the incoming president. Musk and Jeff Bezos will both be seated in prominent spots at Trump’s inauguration Monday. But Meta’s changes, along with Zuckerberg’s personal appeals to Trump, have caused a cascade of reactions among its users.

NBC News reviewed hundreds of posts and comments across various social media platforms that said users would delete their Meta accounts, stop posting or boycott the company in response to the changes. The exodus is reminiscent of when X (formerly Twitter) users left the platform in large numbers after the 2024 election.”

Meta’s pivot to the right sparks boycotts and a user exodus

Some users are fleeing Meta platforms to alternatives like Bluesky.

www.nbcnews.com

Interesting that ending third-party fact-checking is welcomed by the right; conservatives fear facts and the truth.

Absent fact-checking, conservatives are at liberty to spread disinformation and lies.

And the conduct policy change allows conservatives to post rightwing hate speech with impunity.

The loons world where anything right of Stalin is Conservative.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

Strange… you had no problem with billionaires currying favor with the previous president.


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That's different because Trump.

 

[LeftofLeft]

“After Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a series of changes that shifted the company and its policies to the right ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, some users are fleeing the company’s platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

In the barrage of changes made in recent weeks, the company ended its third-party fact-checking program in the United States and said it would pull back on content moderation around political discourse. Instead, Meta will use a community notes system similar to Elon Musk’s X. Updates to Meta’s policy on hateful conduct include that LGBTQ people can now be called mentally ill because of their identities. Meta also disbanded its diversity, equity and inclusion team.

Zuckerberg isn’t the only Big Tech billionaire currying favor with the incoming president. Musk and Jeff Bezos will both be seated in prominent spots at Trump’s inauguration Monday. But Meta’s changes, along with Zuckerberg’s personal appeals to Trump, have caused a cascade of reactions among its users.

NBC News reviewed hundreds of posts and comments across various social media platforms that said users would delete their Meta accounts, stop posting or boycott the company in response to the changes. The exodus is reminiscent of when X (formerly Twitter) users left the platform in large numbers after the 2024 election.”

Meta’s pivot to the right sparks boycotts and a user exodus

Some users are fleeing Meta platforms to alternatives like Bluesky.

www.nbcnews.com

Interesting that ending third-party fact-checking is welcomed by the right; conservatives fear facts and the truth.

Absent fact-checking, conservatives are at liberty to spread disinformation and lies.

And the conduct policy change allows conservatives to post rightwing hate speech with impunity.

Your act of disinformation is insinuating that only the Conservative right engages in disinformation.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Strange… you had no problem with billionaires currying favor with the previous president.


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thats because jones is a hypocrite...

 

[LibertyKid]

Interesting that ending third-party fact-checking is welcomed by the right; conservatives fear facts and the truth.

Huh... Wait, let's go back in time:
The Right - "Covid came from a lab that is experimenting on gain of function research on the corona virus"
The Left (MSM, Big Tech Social Media) - "Fake news and conspiracy theories"