FB has been normally Right wing propaganda arm for ru, for like a decade. i think they might have ramped it up. plus AI bots are probably running the site anyways.
Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My wife is very progressive and believes in human rights. Her Facebook feed went conservative about a week ago now with constant right wing propaganda.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Aneb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Truth, I was in the boy to alt-right pipeline cause Facebook targets literally everybody with these obtrusive ads and logic void arguments that cause brain rot. I was 15 going on hate crime because a popular Facebook post told me I was an alpha, ten years before this beta/alpha shit hit the mainstream. I’m a much more reserved adult but I’m so depressed my family still takes part in social media. I feel like I don’t have friends because I’m not on insta like what hell did we turn into
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
She’s not very progressive if she uses Facebook.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have asked her to get off of Facebook for awhile, but she is reluctant because her whole family uses it as their primary form of communication.
I ditched Facebook finally during COVID. I had already known it was a garbage platform, but I was feeling similarly because a lot of people I knew used it. The same thing happened to my feed though and I started getting a ton of anti-vax content.
What was worse is because I am pro-health and medical technology I advocated for people to be safe. I started getting death threats by friends of friends. I was flabbergasted and decided to delete my account then and there. If Facebook could turn people anti-vax and pro-murder I had to leave.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yeah the people become awful on it. But then there is also the data collect, the active political manipulation by the platform itself. Not to mention directly funding Zuckerberg and his plans.
I never was on Facebook, I saw it as a bad idea when it came out. But I understand how many people including friends or family use it. I am pretty blunt: they support Trump, they support billionaires, they support fascism. There is no mincing of words on this, particularly now. Fortunately people are beginning to see that they are getting less of what they asked for (friends and family updates) and that seems to be annoying them enough to at least consider other options. Its harder for them to understand how much of their information had been slanted or even hidden from them.
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 2 months ago
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Progressives don’t go to Nazi bars.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Not even remotely the same. Being on Facebook actively funds fascism there is no other way to look at it.
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 2 months ago
So does purchasing groceries at Walmart, but many Americans have no choice in that matter.
I do appreciate that you had a more empathetic comment for the guy whose girlfriend is still on Facebook. Thank you for having the civility to not call her a fascist sympathizer to his face. But don't worry, your true feelings are safe with me.
This is not how you make allies btw.
BJ_and_the_bear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Big tech has gone full fascist for a bit now
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How else you get big bucks from sellimg surveillance tech to the state? Not with principled politicians.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
With literally no tech opposition from the left
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s almost as though most of the techbros are fascists who read about half of Atlas Shrugged and think it makes them smart.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The left had so many things they hated that the right manipulated them into cancelling every single celebrity with a skeleton in their closet. This made all of the terrified. At the same time the right showed they will defend and enrich anyone who even looks their way. The left alienated everyone they could, the right embraced them and offered a safe space. This isn’t complicated. It isn’t Atlas Shrugged. It’s basic human nature and social awareness. The left bought right into so many poisoned apples.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Sure, but what? All the tech-savvy Americans are fascist sympathizers? No actually bright and plugged-in people in the tech world?