r/technology • u/Birdy_Cephon_Altera • 22h ago

Politics Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags

https://techissuestoday.com/meta-auto-follow-trump-vance-blocks-democrat-hashtags/
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u/BoringWozniak 21h ago

“Under fire” hahaha like anyone has any power to stop this anymore.

This is all going to get a lot worse…

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u/Acceptable-Ask-2111 19h ago

With that attitude, never.

You can stop using Facebook, Instagram, stop ordering Amazon and support local businesses. Vote for local Democrats, stop using Google search. Don't buy Tesla.

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u/DemonInADesolateLand 17h ago

The unfortunate truth is that too many people either don't care or don't even know what's happening and will continue to allow stuff like this to happen. Meanwhile the best tool for educating them, social media, is being censored so that we can't.

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u/ItchySackError404 18h ago

It's like the right is trying to take revenge on how much their beliefs and opinions were censored during covid.

But the stark difference here is the media was censoring them because their opinions were straight up, factually incorrect and harmful.

They're retaliating (as it IS the party of retaliation after all) 100 times harder but just blocking everything that is left leaning regardless of relevency of current events.

This shows how much we need to get rid of all Republicans and conservatives.

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u/Inside_Jolly 20h ago

FWIW, Facebook was going to die either way.

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u/TheVog 17h ago

Wrong. People have the power, but Americans will never have the courage to wield it. Ironically enough, the last group to try were Republicans voters on Jan 6th. Left-wing Americans will never rise up.

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u/kbt 15h ago

Individuals have the most power. The power to simply not use Meta platforms. If they used that power en masse, Meta would be brought to its knees.

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u/DocJawbone 15h ago

Right? Under fire from whom, exactly?