I just read an article about a ballot box being lit on fire in a heavily blue locale. After my initial horror I thought why there as opposed to anywhere else blue? There’s a tight contest for the house rep in that district, a purple district.
Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight.
Submitted 7 months ago by Dot@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-militia-organizing-election/
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zephorah@lemm.ee 7 months ago
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Facebook and others seem to have forgotten how Facebook incited a genocide in Myanmar
Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sounds like the government should eat Meta’s lunch before extremists eat their’s. They won’t tho. They’ll let every tiny far right group smear shit over the white house again.
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’ll be just like 2020: react after the damage is done and pretend they weren’t complicit.
grue@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Assuming that there are any non-fascists left to react…
Benjaben@lemmy.world 7 months ago
For real. The big tech companies are today basically approximating and exceeding what have before been exclusively state-level capabilities. Not all of those capabilities, of course, but enough that the writing’s on the wall. Meta, Google, Amazon (and others) - they truly see themselves as above “petty” things like governments. Just obstacles to work around.
The question is what will we allow them to get away with, not how far will they try to take things. We should be clear on that.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
i wonder when megacorporations start openly governing countries, pushing the local government to sidelines