Comment on Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging.

CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ok, but there had been plenty of criticism before that, specifically how readily the algorithm funnels the user into alt-right echo chambers.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And now it’s much worse.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That was more YouTube than Facebook.

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      • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The accusations are leveled at all social media.

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