Comment on Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoHistorically ('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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
And now it’s much worse.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That was more YouTube than Facebook.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The accusations are leveled at all social media.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Different applications employ different strategies for sifting content.
Facebook (and Google) pivoting to pure engagement bait was a more recent development, closer to 2018+, and synced up with their AI obsessions.