Comment on Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The headline confuses me. Has Facebook ever done something else?
Comment on Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The headline confuses me. Has Facebook ever done something else?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Historically ('10s era) they were very focused on being “family friendly” and censoring anything they considered violent, sexual, perverse, deliberately deceptive, or otherwise upsetting to your middle-aged middle-income housewife/grandma.
Post-COVID, Zuckerberg’s been increasingly blackpilled, with an eye towards shock-jock engagement bait over any kind of civil moderation, fact-checking of misinformation, or discouragement of fraud/scam posts. So a site plenty of users have historically complained about feeling cloistered and sterile in the Disney-fied sense is now a total madhouse of AI slop, bum-fights clips, drop-shipper spam, and bargain basement rumor-mongering.
We’ve gone from a space that’s Mormon-style conservative to Fight Club-coded conservative.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ok, but there had been plenty of criticism before that, specifically how readily the algorithm funnels the user into alt-right echo chambers.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
And now it’s much worse.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That was more YouTube than Facebook.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The accusations are leveled at all social media.