• 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    :sigh: I hate when people just tell outright lies for clicks.

    Did bad people get money from Meta? Yes.

    Did Meta actively pay bad people to post bad content? NO. This is like saying that Youtube had hired people to post AI videos targeting children because they pay people part of the advertising they sell on videos. It is not the same thing at all.

    If a Walmart employee beats you up while they’re on the clock, these twits would post “WALMART HIRED AND PAID PEOPLE TO BEAT INNOCENT PEOPLE UP”.

    Am I saying Meta is great? No1 Fuck you no! But is this headline bullshit? YES IT IS.

  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Between this, Cambridge Analytica, and the overall enshittification of society it has brought, can Meta be fucking dissolved already? Or would that be too harmful to the global dopamine hit supply?

  • Naich@piefed.world
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    “Hugo Lennon … believed to be one of the organizers behind an “anti-immigration” march on a sacred Indigenous site in the city last year.”

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  • LemmyPlaceDN@europe.pub
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    That shortened headline phrasing is semantically ambiguous. With context it’s clear, but it can also be read as “In order to post on Facebook, Meta has caught nazis who were paying”

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    Meta’s “financial model is to reward content creators who get engagement, and as we know, the best way of getting engagement is to produce rage bait, extremist material, aggravating material: anything that will get people upset and arguing is the best way to get engagement.”

    That tracks.

    • PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space
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      Vasily Grossman, a Ukrainian Jew himself, wrote this after WW II on Jewish Nazi sympathizers and collaborators:

      The violence of a totalitarian State is so great as to be no longer a means to an end; it becomes an object of mystical worship and adoration. How else can one explain the way certain intelligent, thinking Jews declared the slaughter of the Jews to be necessary for the happiness of mankind? That in view of this they were ready to take their own children to be executed - ready to carry out the sacrifice once demanded of Abraham?

  • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world
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    As if it wasn’t obvious enough that nazi posters have special protected status on social media platforms. The report buttons do nothing against them.

    • Trump Rapes Kids@lemmy.world
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      That’s crazy talk. The report buttons work exactly as intended for racist accounts. Every time someone reports them they make 50 cents.

  • Sims@lemmy.ml
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    Nazism have gotten a deliberate revival in the western information sphere.

    We had the same celebration of Nazi c*nts in Canada, where Trudeau pulled out an old Ukrainian Nazi, and let him be paraded in their parliamentarian chambers - together with Zelensky oc.

    If we go further back, we see that a throng of nazi’s from old Germany/Europe was saved/relocated and protected by the Western psycho Oligarchy, that was just waiting to trigger them again later.

    We even see that many of the current unelected top EU elite have families that have close connections to this archaic and disgusting ideology, through parents, or grandparents.

    We see techlords that have WAY to close connections, and families that openly express similar attitudes.

    What is especially interesting, is that the situation in Ukraine was escalated by US through local Nazi groups that were also nurtured since 1990’ies by the US/CIA, and we see how Ukraine is controlled by Nazi groups today (they all have Bandera and Nazi signs everywhere and their nazi groups vocally confirms it despite being told to hide it now).

    My bet is that Meta worked closely with US oligarchy, to manipulate the western population towards accepting nazi attitudes, as something more normal, and hopefully for them, nurture a new breed of nationalists ready to kill others for the Zuck and the Epsteins…

  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
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    Underscoring how much Meta has dropped the ball on this one, even X — owned by Elon Musk, who performed two suspiciously Sieg Heil-looking salutes back in 2025 — has banned The Noticer for violating its “hateful profile policy.”

    Not just Nazis but Nazis that make other Nazis squeamish.

  • eicker@lemmy.world
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    Facebook spent years claiming it couldn’t control what its platform amplified: Apparently it gets much easier when it’s time to write the checks.

    • quarkquasar@lemmy.world
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      “The Internet of the future will be amazing! People will use it to voluntarily enrich their minds, and freedom and peace will reign!”

      Actually: Nazis

  • Dave.@aussie.zone
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    The best kind of content for engagement is hate. You get users angrily defending both sides, stacks of comments, reposts (both in support of, and "OMG look at what they’re saying), the whole shebang.

    Meta has learned that promotion of hate content pays off handsomely on those sweet sweet engagement metrics that shareholders love.

    So of course they’re going to pay the hatemongers for content. Even when their own content policies ostensibly forbid it. Because that’s what makes line go up and they’ll do anything to keep that happening.