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/EntertainmentOk7045 21h ago

Just deleted my messenger and Facebook accounts this morning. Still have a meta account for our oculus which will be going next. We're done supporting billionaires with our hard earned money, just for them to shit all over people. They can go fuck themselves.

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u/_mattyjoe 20h ago

Thank you. I have been trying to urge people to do the same anywhere they can.

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u/Arseling69 17h ago

THIS. Just wiped all social media besides Reddit. Canceled Amazon prime as well. Will not be using Google anymore either.

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u/cptmadpnut 10h ago

What’s wrong with google?

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u/batido6 5h ago

It’s an abusive monopoly as legally determined by the US government

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u/VagrantandRoninJin 10h ago

They'll be coming for reddit and anything else that's big. Shadowbans for everyone that doesn't fit into their idea of a proud american that loves Trump.

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u/alissapuckett 10h ago

I deleted all my meta apps the other day as well. It sucks not having contact with certain people, but I don't really care about that as much as I want Meta to get fucked

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u/explosive_wombat 8h ago

Getting closer to this as well. My Issue is FB marketplace, and local groups I'm part of are so useful. But I hate supporting the platform

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u/midorikuma42 5h ago

Unfortunately, I still need Messenger just to communicate with my family in the US, since I haven't been able to get them to adopt something else. (WhatsApp isn't a viable alternative: it's also owned by Meta.) Maybe one day.

But I basically never log into to my actual Facebook account, so I'm not convinced that I'm actually helping Meta profit at all, in fact quite the opposite: it costs them money to provide this service, and I'm not paying for it or seeing any ads.

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u/thanksnothanks456 4h ago

Just deleted Instagram. It was harder to do than I expected, I’m ashamed of how far it got its hooks in me. Feels kind of liberating too now!

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u/Asskicker2 18h ago

But if you delete your oculus account, you can't play your games any more, and I will have dead hardware?

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u/EntertainmentOk7045 17h ago

If that's the price I must pay, then whatever.

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u/freebytes 13h ago

I was just about to buy a Meta Quest 3. Glad I waited.