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Comment on Report: Facebook Parent Company Meta has been Censoring and Shadow Banning Pro-Palestinian Accounts

I'm so fucking tired of this acceptance people have where they treat Meta and Facebook as separate entities. Where, at one point, it was just one entity called Facebook. Facebook doesn't have a parent company, because it's just Facebook. Meta only came into existence because Mark was forced his hand in some monopoly issue or something.

And big surprise, Facebook dictating who can and can't be on it's platform.

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obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
mmm, it’ll be a cold day in hell before I call them Meta, it’s a very transparent attempt to psychologically reset our opinion of them, as if we’re all stupid.

It’s insulting how thick they think we are.

They’re Facebook. Call yourselves “We didn’t do evil stuff we’re good guys honest” I still won’t believe you …

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- snownyte@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  It's exactly the same thing with Google. Pretending it has a parent company to give this idea that we're not to blame Google for any of the bad shit it does, let's blame this non-existent entity that Google constructed to take some of the heat off.
  
  Except people don't directly refer to Alphabet or make mention of it as much compared to Meta/Facebook.
  
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  - neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    They made another kind of guy for you to get really mad at.
    
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Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
To me it is ridiculous that companies can even own other companies. The only real purpose of doing so is to play shenanigans with regulations, obfuscate responsibility, and generally deceive.

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MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Yeah, I don’t get it. No one says, “fuck Alphabet for how they’re handling YouTube”. No one says, “fuck Alphabet for baking spyware into Android and Chrome”. No, they criticize Google for that stuff. Why is Facebook different?

I don’t think the people doing it now are bots, but I swear the Facebook-Meta separation had to have been started by astroturfing. People seemed way too eager to accept the rebranding and act like Meta was somehow different from Facebook.

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