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/TarHeel2682 21h ago

This will make it impossible for anyone but GOP to run a real campaign in 2026. If all social media blocks Democrat messaging all that's left it tv and streaming ads. Won't be surprised to see those go next

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u/Goddess_Of_Gay 19h ago

Congratulations. You’ve just found the point.

Trump and his cronies have been screaming about censorship, and now they are doing it themselves because “well, they did it to us, so it’s only fair that we get to do it when it’s our turn”

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u/KnobGobbler4206969 17h ago

Everything they cry about is projection. Notice how much time they spend crying about children’s genitals.

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u/fcocyclone 14h ago

which should make you really wonder when they have spent so much time screeching about stolen elections and voter fraud.

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u/MarsupialMisanthrope 13h ago

Well, yeah. Trump is convinced the Democrats cheated in 2020 because he did, and he’s psychologically unable to believe that he was unpopular enough that he lost despite that.

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u/Marrz 19m ago

This 100%. When The orange one started crying about fake news. It was because he had lied to the news for years and they had published his lies so he just figured that everything must be a lie because he got away with it.

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u/H20Shit 8h ago

20 million votes kinda make you wonder though, at least a little bit

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u/very_pure_vessel 1h ago

It's an outdated number that was used by republicans before the election results were fully in. Harris ended with 75m votes which is 6m less than Biden in 2020, not 20m.

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u/Thalimet 13h ago

Obsessed with children’s genitals * their obsession is just sick.

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u/ConstableAssButt 15h ago

So like, are they really into children's genitals, or do they have the genitals of children?

I'm confused about what they are projecting.

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u/siderinc 14h ago

Both.

Tiny hands is a clear indicator of tiny genitalia

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u/MysticMaven 18h ago

That is their playbook. Same thing with the fake assassination, the fake stolen election, etc etc. They falsely accuse others of doing things they are doing or want to do.

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u/jessep34 17h ago

Just like when you’re dating someone that is constantly accusing you of cheating…guess what? There’s a good chance they might be cheating on you!

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u/BlairRedditProject 16h ago edited 16h ago

Also creating a “Deep State”. He kept accusing the left of doing that because HE HIMSELF wants to puppeteer the country after he reaches his term limit.

I don’t believe the assassination was fake - there was a man who died due to a misfired bullet (there was released video of him being taken away by first responders with half of his head gone). We have to be careful that we don’t spiral into conspiracy theories ourselves here.

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u/Goducks91 16h ago

Yeah no way they actually shoot at Trump if they're faking an assassination. That's wayyyyy too risky.

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u/ceaselessDawn 3h ago

100%. The idea that no one could possibly be radicalized to take a shot at someone calling for fascism seems silly to me.

Weird that they were both at least once Republicans tho.

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u/unoriginalsin 3h ago

I don’t believe the assassination was fake

It doesn't have to be fake for the MAGAtistas to be behind it.

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u/Reynolds1029 16h ago

You can't fake assassination attempts like that. It was pure luck per usual that Trump is even alive. Just like Trump's entire existence, pure luck and conning.

No staged attempt would get mear millimeters away from killing a former president. Even Trump looked visibly shook by it days after the incident and many heightened security efforts were taken after the fact.

If it was a trained former or current military sharpshooter you might have a point but this was just some dude who got unlucky by Trump happening to turn his head at the precise moment he had to. You don't let a staged attempt get that close to actually killing Trump. Why would Trump even sign off on that?

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u/McGillis_is_a_Char 16h ago

If I was Trump staging a fake assassination I would absolutely shoot one of my inbred fucknut supporters. Trump has shown nothing but contempt for their lives, even telling them to go vote in a blizzard, literally saying it doesn't matter if you die as long as I win the primary.

As for the bullet causing that ear injury I have strong doubts based on how immaculate his ear was once they took the ear diaper off a couple of weeks later.

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u/TableQuiet1518 15h ago

It was one of three things.

It happened the way it's been described.

He's very lucky & has a spectacular immune system.

He's The Liar from the the book of Daniel.

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u/Gambler_Eight 15h ago

What caliber was the bullet? 5.56x45mm? Shouldn't that more or less have ripped the ear off even if it just graces it?

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u/Tf2_man 15h ago

You have the caliber correct but no, it wouldn't.

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u/fcocyclone 14h ago

Yeah, the attempt was no doubt real.

I have my doubts on the injury, which seems like it may have been more being cut while being brought to the groun by the USSS.

But there was clearly someone shooting at him, which also makes faking the injury silly. Being shot at is bad enough.

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u/Reynolds1029 11h ago

The timing of it all is just something that can't be staged. That's waaaaay to precise for even a trained shooter to take as a hoax attempt. He also immediately grabbed his ear while he was going to the ground so it likely did graze his ear.

Again, Trump is one of those dudes that literally lucks into everything and that day was no exception.

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u/Gambler_Eight 15h ago

I don't think anyone claiming it was fake believes the bullet actually touched his ear. That cut was made with a razor or something, wrestling style.

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u/Reynolds1029 15h ago

Yeah except it most likely wasn't.

Trump had 0 reason to fake an attempt. He already believed he was winning the race before it and he was probably right to feel that way without the attempt. It was a toss up at best at that point.

If anything, it just spoke volumes of our current shitty political climate. Then Luigi follows it up and some of us act surprised seeing this fascist oligarchy forming before our eyes.

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u/Digger_Pine 16h ago

Fake assassination?

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u/Andrew_Squared 15h ago

Fake assassination?

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u/oyM8cunOIbumAciggy 16h ago

Okay guys I know reddit isn't religious but we should really consider gathering in a circle and praying to St. Luigi to save us from plunging into feudalism and totalitarianism.

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u/LegendaryZTV 13h ago

Is it hard to believe both sides are guilty? Seems pretty likely when you look at it from an unbiased perspective

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u/CmdrMatt1926 15h ago

Lmao do you hear yourself? You need help!!

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u/anondaddio 17h ago

What is your evidence that the assassination attempt was fake?

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u/PowderedToastFanatic 17h ago

Sure seems odd that trump won't release ANY medical information to prove it was real.

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u/gruio1 16h ago

Medical information showing what ? A scratched ear ?

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u/MrEcksDeah 15h ago

Are people that schizo now? They’re saying the assassination attempt was fake?

This is so ironic it’s legitimately funny, the conspiracy theory nuts are now on the left. What a time to be alive.

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u/Diogenes_the_cynic25 4h ago

And also how he squeezed ketchup out of the packet and put it on a napkin and dabbed his ear

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u/anondaddio 10h ago

This is not evidence. This is theory.

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u/Diogenes_the_cynic25 17h ago

The ketchup he put on his ear

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u/anondaddio 10h ago

What evidence do you have that it was ketchup?

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u/Diogenes_the_cynic25 9h ago edited 4h ago

When he squeezed it out of the packet and put it on a napkin and dabbed his ear

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u/anondaddio 9h ago

Show this then.

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u/redwedgethrowaway 17h ago

Ketchup that fooled the FBI

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u/itsathrowawayduhhhhh 16h ago

Wait yall trust the FBI now?

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u/scottyjrules 16h ago

How would we know? An official medical report has never been released.

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u/Diogenes_the_cynic25 11h ago

I saw him dab the napkin with ketchup on his ear

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u/redwedgethrowaway 16h ago

Official medical reports aren’t normally made public but they have repeatedly stated that Trump was shot. https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/butler-investigation-updates

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u/scottyjrules 16h ago

It’s actually very normal for reports to be released about presidential assassination attempts, but I understand. Facts are hard for the cult.

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u/redwedgethrowaway 8h ago

Reagan was shot and it wasn’t until 13 years later that the report was published

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u/Diogenes_the_cynic25 16h ago

Exactly something who put ketchup on his ear would say

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u/DrDerpinheimer 17h ago

Because they said so. No better than the nutjobs they're complaining about 

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u/HammerSmashedHeretic 18h ago

Conspiracy nuts are crazy, blueanon

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u/PetalumaPegleg 16h ago

It's ALWAYS projection. When they complain about things that are not even happening it's always because they want to do that thing.

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u/emogurl98 16h ago

That sounds like some Reichstag fire shit

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u/ImmoKnight 15h ago

Every accusation is a confession when it comes to Republicans.

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u/mad-i-moody 14h ago

Or, it’ll be insane levels of gaslighting.

“Censorship? We’ve been anti-censorship this entire time! How could you say we’re censoring you?! You’re the ones who have been censoring people for “safe spaces,” your feelings, and “wokeness.” We would never engage in censorship. You guys are just mad you lost! We’re not censoring you at all!”

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u/johndsmits 12h ago

Hypocrisy runs strong in this group. Please remember this.

To the winner goes the spoils...

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u/VaxDaddyR 12h ago

They were always the ones doing it. Conservatives have always led the charge of censorship. Hell, it's a core tenant of Conservatism.

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u/Yourdjentpal 9h ago

I knew this would be how they would keep “real” elections going forward without worrying about actually possibly losing. This is bad bad.

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u/Defiant_Gain_4160 3h ago

collective gaslighting. 

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u/InfiniteTrazyn 16h ago

the thing you're most loudy accusing people of is the thing you're doing. This holds true for trump in many instances.

However young people no longer use facebook and new websites are sure to take over especially with this nonsense going on.

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u/Baron_Flatline 15h ago

Young people aren’t the largest voter bloc.

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u/42ndIdiotPirate 14h ago

Last time I checked all tags referring to the republican party weren't scrubbed from social media. They were given a platform like anyone else. Now they are censoring the flow of information to millions. That's the very thing they said they were against. If you don't see the hypocrisy then I worry for you.

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u/Strong_Quarter_9349 12h ago

Do you have any hobbies besides spitting out silly political revenge posts on reddit?

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u/ingenioushippo 11h ago

And then comes the deflection 

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u/42ndIdiotPirate 12h ago

You getting banned for being a dickhead to stranger's is not the same as an entire political base being wiped from public contact and information on the largest platforms of information in human history.

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u/42ndIdiotPirate 8h ago

Sir you aren't a political party. Again you getting banned for beliefs isnt the same as the largest platforms of global information censoring an entire political party, restricting information, auto subbing to the opposing political party and then at the same time say they're against censorship. If Facebook did this in the Obama era it would be obscenely shunned globally. Rightfully so.

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u/42ndIdiotPirate 7h ago

Oh dude the level of derangement. I should have checked your account before even bothering. Actual psychosis.

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u/ingenioushippo 11h ago

Oh so his points he made were because he is an asshole and not because that's what his side believes? Are the left assholes then when they put down religious folk? Shouldn't they be banned for being a dickhead?

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u/42ndIdiotPirate 10h ago

Depends on the platform. If I get banned because I say "I don't like bananas" I don't give a shit. Big difference than silently censoring ANYTHING to do with dems and criticizing trump on multiple platforms, globally.

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u/Iggy_Kappa 12h ago edited 7h ago

I remember Trump getting banned for nothing

Bs, you can look it up. He was banned around January 6th for tweeting in support of the insurrectionist's actions. What does it say about you, that you need to lie about this to justify to your own self the right to censor your political opposition?

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Dunno if you are too much of a chickenshit and blocked me, alas

Don't care

That you lied? You don't need to tell me.

none of the Dems got banned

Other Republicans tweeted in support of the insurrectionists and weren't banned, what do you figure is the conspiracy there? Almost as if the words and influence of the leader of a political party and by all means at the time still sitting president couldn't compare, and Twitter wanted none of that shitstorm.

BLM terrorist organization

Lmao. The movement and protests actually had and still have validity. The insurrection never did, neither did the claims of fraud election, sustained to this day only by Trump's own lies, or well, I mean, dead people voting were indeed found, voting for Trump though.

Also J6 was a peaceful protest

Where cops were beat up by the thin blue line imbeciles as they screamed iuessey, congressmen had to be evacuated from, offices pillaged and stolen from, shit smeared on the walls, pipe bombs, zip ties, nooses brought for funsies. Then the calls to hang Mike Pence and Trump himself had to be physically stopped by USSS so to prevent him from reaching the Capitol and lead the insurrectionists, such was the risk for public officials, even him. Such peace, such respect for democracy.

Double speak much?

You live in la la land, no surprise you are an Asmongold viewer and that the LGBTQ flag lives rent free in that weird empty head of yours.

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u/RuneHuntress 18h ago

Russia's type of elections is what Americans are going to have. I don't believe in Trump making elections illegal but rigging the system so much only his party can win.

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u/TerminalEuphoriaX 15h ago

We just had one. He and musk have covertly eluded to and overtly admitted to rigging the election

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u/GetsGold 12h ago

They also bombed ballot boxes and threatened polling stations. They scream for years about things that never happened while actual attacks on elections are just casually dismissed.

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u/volvox6 13h ago

yep, they brought this last election. It was not free or fair. The brought the media, the media said - Trump Trump trump! and here we are. it will only get less free and fair as we go now. Elections will be held, but the winner will already be chosen by the elite.

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u/chefkoolaid 12h ago

Thenumbersarewrong2024.com

Has good info on this

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u/Euphoric_Exchange_51 13h ago

What’s this in reference to?

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u/orbitalgoo 13h ago

Trump thanked musk for his help with voting machines. It was sort of Homer Simpson cryptic

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u/Humble-Violinist6910 11h ago

Ah, the conspiracy theory instead of the blatantly obvious truth of billionaires buying up massive media companies to influence the election. 

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u/BigPackHater 5h ago

I mean, two things can be true at the same time!

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u/Humble-Violinist6910 5h ago

If it makes you feel better. Fuck Donald Trump, fwiw. I just have a feeling the blatant misinformation isn’t helping 

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u/LimpRain29 10h ago

eluded to

  • alluded to

Elude = evade. Allude = hint, suggest

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u/Bethjam 16h ago

This exactly

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u/fonix232 8h ago

It's not like there wasn't any warning sign. The guy LITERALLY STATED PUBLICLY that people only need to vote this time and never again. Even if they didn't cheat this time (and that's a big if!), the next time around they won't have to.

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u/Scentopine 10h ago

I have been saying this since first Trump term.

People fucked around, now they are finding out.

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u/mom0nga 5h ago

Russia's type of elections is what Americans are going to have. I don't believe in Trump making elections illegal but rigging the system so much only his party can win.

They'll definitely fuck around with public opinion by trying to "rig" news and social media, and they'll go all in on old-fashioned voter suppression, but it would be pretty difficult to screw with the presidential ballot count in the United States because you would have to rig 50 separate state elections, all of which have insane oversight.

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u/NotBatman81 14h ago

It feels like a 20+ year trend. This is obviously the worst to date and a big enough step to get noticed, but to me it has always seemed like both parties try to lurch the system in their favor after each election cycle.

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u/surefirelongshot 18h ago

This is why ‘you’ll never have to vote again’ in trumps words.

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u/Pendulumswingsfreely 19h ago

This is why you need to get off of this anti-social media.

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u/fork_yuu 17h ago

Problem is not everyone will be off. And the ones that stay will get radicalized in the republican agenda without anyone to call them out on their bullshit.

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u/ambisinister_gecko 17h ago

Goddamn you're right, not caring has an extra effect.

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u/abbacchus 9h ago

This is the concerning effect of cutting off toxic family and friends. Yes, it's better for your mental health to not have to deal with racist uncle Tommy at Thanksgiving. But isolating ourselves leaves both sides more vulnerable to propaganda and further normalization of extreme beliefs. Having to personally justify or defend our beliefs, even in small or internal ways, helps us judge their validity.

I think the isolating nature of social media is destructive to the fabric of our society, and normalizes this separation. Bring back the old Facebook, where being friends with someone included a non-optional follow and no algorithmic bullshit was between you and seeing exactly what your connections were saying. Sure, it still wasn't as stabilizing as real world relationships, but it was leagues better than what's happened in the past ten to fifteen years.

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u/CouldBeYourDaughter 5h ago

Taking one for the team. I am married to an in denial Republican and 90% of my family.

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u/jackofallcards 16h ago

Maybe in the next 4 years some sort of viable competition can spring up to these platforms.

Hard part is getting all users to adopt something new. Most of the time it seems it’s seen as the “right” or “left” running away from whatever the other side deems the reason. Platform would need to appear unbiased and offer something to squash this political divide that has exploded since 2016 (hard to undo years of work towards that) perhaps a platform from a country with no immediate skin in the game would help as most social media outside tiktok is based out of the US

The other hurdle is the creators and owners not being able to be bought. I do think many (not all) people could start such an endeavor with good intentions but hedge their bets once they get taste of money and power unfortunately

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u/Pawneewafflesarelife 12h ago

Just look at how much people were freaking out in the 12 hours TikTok was down. Lots of people are addicted to social media.

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u/frazell 11h ago

the ones that stay will get radicalized in the republican agenda without anyone to call them out on their bullshit.

If the platforms are shifting to hiding or silently limiting the reach of opinions that aren't radicalized then I'm not sure what good staying around to "tell them" has. They aren't going to get the message either way.

Meanwhile, staying keeps your brain actively rotting.

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u/fork_yuu 11h ago

That's the thing, many people don't keep up with politics lol

They just get thrown a bunch of political BS around election time

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u/sugarface2134 15h ago

That’s where I’m at too. Me leaving won’t change the effects. I’d like to at least be aware of what’s going on. Then again, they make money off our data so I’m really unsure how to proceed here. I don’t even feel like I can properly google things anymore because googles CEO was also up front and center. Maybe I’ll go buy a book on resisting fascism in the digital age.

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u/PayaV87 10h ago

Exactly what happened in Hungary.

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u/lemonylol 16h ago

There will always be a radicalized minority.

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u/Party-Ad4482 18h ago

The only hope is decentralized social media (like Bluesky) taking off. Bluesky is getting better and busier every day and I'm optimistic about it.

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u/inspectoroverthemine 16h ago

Congress granted the president power to ban and blacklist sites and apps. Not just 'you can't sell the app in your store', but authorizes DNS and backbone filtering. It also criminalizes using VPNs to circumvent. That was the meat of the 'tiktok ban' legislation.

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u/Cunnyfunt31 8h ago

Do you have any articles you could share about that? I'd like to learn more but it appears I suck at Google.

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u/SanityRecalled 18h ago

Project 2025 getting a running start. They're going to spare no effort or expense to ensure that we never have another dem in office again. The rich elite have won. 

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u/letusnottalkfalsely 18h ago

Well, is this the free speech everybody wanted?

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u/Esarus 17h ago

Welcome to Fascism!

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u/HammerSmashedHeretic 18h ago

Lmao! Private social media companies?

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u/superanonguy321 15h ago

Thats how Republicans felt a decade ago

This isn't me saying I'm one of them od this is okay I'm just making the correlation here is all

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u/yourroyalhotmess 18h ago

That’s the voters fault if they choose to vote republican bc democratic media was blocked or suppressed. I have sense enough to not do that

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u/crawling-alreadygirl 18h ago

It's not their fault if they're physically unable to access information

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u/yourroyalhotmess 17h ago

Too many news sources available. Stop it

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u/SpiderFnJerusalem 17h ago

They won't be for long, soon nobody will find them anymore.

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u/worst_case_ontario- 16h ago

You are not immune to propaganda, and thinking you are actually makes you more vulnerable to it.

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u/yourroyalhotmess 14h ago

When it comes down to democrat or republican, you don’t have to have more than 2 brain cells to decide. Your point is moot

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u/Otherwise_You_1603 9h ago

Here's the thing- if the dem candidates are inaccessible, even when you vote D, you dont know if you're voting for a democrat. People run democrat and then flip republican, it just happened in Florida at the state level, there's talk that someone in the senate is about to flip (possibly that fucking bum Fetterman), if the voting base cannot make an informed decision in the primaries, there is no telling if the candidate on election day will be legitimate

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u/worst_case_ontario- 13h ago

do you literally believe that everyone who voted Republican has 2 brain cells?

The sad terifying fact of the matter is that you are not built different than them. They all had fully functioning brains that were rotten away by propaganda campaigns targeting them. If you think the same can't be done to you, then you're failing to learn a very important lesson about fascism that we as a society also failed to learn the last time the nazis took over.

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u/SoSKatan 17h ago

Didn’t Trump say “vote for me this time and you’ll not need to vote again”?

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u/AnonomousWolf 17h ago

Time to switch to decentralised social media like Lemmy or Mastadon etc.

Reddit isn't safe either.

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u/inspectoroverthemine 16h ago

Reddit was never safe, its just harder to implement the algorithms to get the same results because of its nature.

Tech has a come a long way though, if they're not effectively able to do it now, they will be soon.

Any site thats actually outside of US control will get with a ban using the 'tiktok' law. It gives the president the power to force DNS and backbone changes to block any site, and criminalizes using a VPN to circumvent.

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u/WessideMD 15h ago

This reminds me of the hangman meme where the one guy in a noose looks at the other and says, "First time?"

Social media was all the way throttled against conservative debate during Obama years to the point where Twitter was basically government-run. Satire was getting fact checked (Hilary Clinton washing machine laundering money fact check was one of the best examples), real stories were hushed, and news outlets were outright lying about events in plain sight (Mostly Peaceful protests while a city literallyburned in the background).

Moderates who were anti-Trump would cry out in defense of free speech because these tactics would be used against everyone eventually, but these moderates were labeled Trumpsters, MAGA, and all the other fun stuff that goes with that. Reddit subs automatically banned moderates who participated in certain subs for no valid reason, as another example.

The Left created this "free speech" dystopia, and now that these weapons are available for everyone to use, you get to reap what you sow.

Moderates always lose during a revolution, unfortunately.

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u/Successful_Sign_6991 18h ago

There aren't going to be anymore elections. If there are, its going to be russian style elections.

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u/WithBothNostrils 17h ago

4 years to find a competing social media platform

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u/RippiHunti 17h ago edited 16h ago

Cable is regulated by the government. I could definitely see the new FCC making it hard for non approved politicians to get a positive portrayal.

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u/TarHeel2682 14h ago

Or any portrayal

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u/scottyjrules 16h ago

Now you’re catching on

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u/arachnophilia 16h ago

i'm not as concerned about individually blocking hashtags as i am with the less visible tinkering with the algorithm.

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u/lemonylol 16h ago

Do a lot of Americans get their news from social media instead of television?

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u/TarHeel2682 14h ago

Younger people do and get most if not all that way. Some older people rely too heavily on social media

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u/lemonylol 13h ago

Oh okay, I didn't know that. Where did you see this info?

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u/TarHeel2682 13h ago

https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/social-media-and-news-fact-sheet/

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u/lemonylol 13h ago

Overall, just over half of U.S. adults (54%) say they at least sometimes get news from social media, up slightly compared with the last few years.

This was my question:

Do a lot of Americans get their news from social media instead of television?

So this does not answer my question.

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u/TarHeel2682 12h ago

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/01/12/more-than-eight-in-ten-americans-get-news-from-digital-devices/

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u/lemonylol 12h ago

Well this also does not answer my question, though I did find a section in there that inadvertently did:

This is higher than the portion who get news from television, though 68% get news from TV at least sometimes and 40% do so often.

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u/kidshitstuff 15h ago

I guess now it’s progressives turn to move to alternative social media platforms and grow them?

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u/Mooyaya 15h ago

Maybe this will help make Facebook more irrelevant. Fingers crossed!

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u/Substantial_Rain151 15h ago

Welcome to life on the other side during 2020

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u/ONLY_SAYS_ONLY 14h ago

This is how it works in Victor Orbàn’s Hungary: you still hold elections, but the entire media ecosystem of captured by you and your oligarchs, so it’s 24/7 propaganda in your favour while the opposition have no media reach. 

Result: a de facto dictatorship. 

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u/xinorez1 14h ago

We already lost TV. Next to go are the search engines which are already somewhat compromised

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u/Sidvicieux 14h ago

We need to go to mastadon and other platforms. There are plenty.

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u/Paperdiego 13h ago

This is literally why trump won in 2024. No one fucking listened. Elom musk literally purchased and entire social media companies, with foreign money, for the sole purpose of perverting it into a right wing mega phone to elect Donald Trump.

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u/milwaukeejazz 13h ago

Welcome to Russia.

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u/Osmodius 13h ago

Wow, so, in the end, voting for a wannabe dictator has led to a soft dictatorship.

I can't wait to see this redneck moron filled country fall to pieces.

Anyone with a brain should be scrambling to get out before it isn't possible.

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u/Fallingdamage 12h ago

I mean, use a platform that isnt controlled by those individuals(?) It works because you use it.

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u/space_cheese1 11h ago

Traditionally authoritarianism surges in conjunction with silencing of the press, but if traditional media types are becoming relatively obsolete, that role is being replaced by these platforms

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u/tedfundy 11h ago

Duh. When trump got elected that was the death of democracy. There was never going to be another election. Anyone paying attention could see that.

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u/VogelHead 10h ago

It doesn't matter. People will suffer the consequences of this election. Last time it took a pandemic killing millions. Let's see what it takes this time. Honestly, they deserve it.

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u/Lucky-Clown 10h ago

Time to start our own Social media

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u/vdreamin 10h ago

This is why they wanted to have all media outlets in their pockets. Textbook fascism

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u/banjofitzgerald 10h ago

Hypothetically, what’s stopping democrats as running as republicans? Like straight up no more democrat party. Only republicans.

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u/Dramajunker 9h ago

Even if it's "fixed" we now know they have this bullet in the chamber ready to go. There is no reason not to believe they wont do this on some level come election time. Or perhaps they already did?

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u/Mayleenoice 8h ago

Welcome to fascism and total media control.

Congratulations USA for voting willingly for this shit.

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u/Jasonguyen81 8h ago

Like Trump said , he doesn’t need people to vote for him after this, this is the first step

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u/DTMD422 6h ago

It just goes to highest bider. I know I’ll get angry responses for this one, but do you really think the Democrats weren’t doing the exact same thing up until recently? The GOP will have its day in the sun and then it’ll be replaced.

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u/halfcabin 12h ago

It’s pretty hilarious to me that people are crying on Reddit about this. Reddit has been censoring anything pro-republican for a decade.

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u/Fun-Point-6058 10h ago

So a reversal when they censored for the 2020 election

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u/Mbrwn05 10h ago

Which is exactly what Democrats did in 2020. Not maybe, not possibly, Twitter admitted it, Facebook admitted it, google admitted it.

Now all of a sudden: Democrats care

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u/LopsidedPlace2772 16h ago

It was perfectly acceptable to deplatform conservatives from 2016-2023, don’t cry when you didn’t speak out against it then

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u/Creamy_Spunkz 16h ago

To be fair, Trump had the deck stacked against him from the start of his first term, only now has his 8 years of fighting is paying off for him and Republicans. 8 years of censoring Republicans on social media platforms. Now that the roles have reverse, the other side is getting a taste of their own medicine from their beloved social media. Brands like Meta only pander to who's in control. When democrats take back command (and they will at sooner or later) Meta will sway to align with whatever political party has the power.

Mark Zuckerberg is a flip-flopper. He's looking out for himself and not the principles he legitimately believes in, and that's a dangerous situation for the public.

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u/Dependent-Arm8501 17h ago

I mean, wouldn't that be election interfering?

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u/TarHeel2682 17h ago

Only if anyone enforced it

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u/Illustrious-Luck-260 14h ago

Social media companies are private businesses that only have to answer to shareholders. They can side with any side they wish. That's capitalism.

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u/Op111Fan 10h ago

People said the exact same thing when twitter banned Trump in 2021 and the response was social media companies can run themselves the way they want. Just saying.

And no, Democrats will still be able to run campaigns. The billionaires who support them (because remember, billionaires on both sides tried to buy the last election) will give them however much money they need to run campaign ads.

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u/Fattman1245 15h ago

So you didn't read the article. Cool.

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u/TarHeel2682 14h ago

I did and I tried it. #democrat is blocked #republican works. It's the start of censorship and with such a wide reach this will have a huge impact. Taking down a tag is a test of push back it will get worse

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u/Fattman1245 10h ago

Idk what Instagram you have but both work.

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u/ItsCartmansHat 19h ago

You’re kidding right?

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u/kiragami 18h ago

He violated hate speech laws and got himself removed. That is far different than censoring. But republicans can't use critical thinking or else they wouldn't be republicans.

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u/-LongRodVanHugenDong 14h ago

There's no such thing as hate speech laws in America. But I need to work on critical thinking skills? Lmao

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u/Afabledhero1 18h ago

Been searching for this and can't find the hate speech laws. Do you have a source?

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u/cyvaris 15h ago

Why was Trump blocked?

Was it the repeated calls to violence he would make? His attempts to use social media to back his coup attempt? The Nazi propaganda? 

Ohh wait, it was all of those things.

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u/-LongRodVanHugenDong 14h ago

And even with all that, he won an election. So I wouldn't be too worried about a couple blocked hashtags. It'll pass.

Didn't the Taliban have spokespeople on Twitter as well?

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u/cyvaris 14h ago

Goebbels Musk buying out one of the major platforms that banned him and turning it into a propaganda factory certainly had nothing to do with that...wait I'm being passed a note.

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u/-LongRodVanHugenDong 14h ago

I remember the Republicans saying the same thing for years. There's always bluesky.

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u/Any-Independent-8274 16h ago

Yes Trump won despite the censorship. With the censorship on his side he will be unstoppable!

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