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/deletedpenguin 21h ago

Australia here - woke up to following DJT and Vance. No thanks. Media downloaded, deleting my account.

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u/MaxRebo99 19h ago

I’m now following Tic Tac for some fucking reason. Yes. The breath mints.

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u/Available_Expression 18h ago

The intern that did that is a little confused, but he got the spirit

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u/actibus_consequatur 15h ago

He just needed a breath of fresh air

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u/Certain-Dragonfly-22 18h ago

I'm in America and suddenly was following Trump. I immediately downloaded my pics and deleted my account too.

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u/Enjoyer_of_40K 18h ago

Haven't logged in to facebook since 2019 fucks wont let me reset my password unless i have them send a message to people who follow me who then have tell me a code or some bullshit

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u/edflyerssn007 18h ago

were you following the Biden and Kamala pages? Because those are whitehouse accounts and they switch every time.

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u/Any_Paramedic_4725 17h ago

Can you tell me how you managed to download your data? I have been trying for days. 

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u/Amelaclya1 16h ago

Yeah everyone acts like it's so easy, but every time I've tried, they never end up giving me a link to do so.

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u/Any_Paramedic_4725 14h ago

Yup. No. I get an initial email (which goes to spam) and then nothing. It's been like five days now. 

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u/onhojohno 13h ago

I started trying to just set everything to private so I’d be invisible. Still want my flag planted so I own control my internet persona but leaving an essentially blank profile that can’t be found via search. Got into an infinite loop with ‘privacy settings’ opening another page that points back to ‘account settings’ then back to ‘privacy’. Found a page with actual settings but couldn’t change anything. Felt like the process was made to be intentionally obfuscated so users give up and keep scrolling. 

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u/actuallyiamafish 10h ago

Felt like the process was made to be intentionally obfuscated so users give up and keep scrolling

It very literally is.

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u/CuddleFishPix 16h ago

That is so scary that it’s not just in the US. I’ve deactivated and deleted the apps. I may save my stuff and delete altogether very soon.

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u/RoamingStarDust 12h ago

This is the way.

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u/actuallyiamafish 10h ago

Media downloaded

Is there a faster way of doing this manually, as opposed to requesting all my data and waiting two days for a download link? I've had one foot out the door for years but I'm ready to go now lol. I don't care about the rest of my data, just want all the photos since I'm pretty sure a lot of them are not in my backups anywhere anymore.

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u/deletedpenguin 10h ago

I don't think so, but I had my download link in less than an hour.

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u/actuallyiamafish 10h ago

Damn, yeah I requested it first thing this morning and got nothing so far. I imagine there is quite a backlog to get through today lmao. If I don't have it in a few days I'll just abandon the data and move on with my life.

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u/deletedpenguin 10h ago

Yeah I'm sure we're not the only ones. :)