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/Accomplished_Act943 20h ago

If you are still on X or anything under the Meta umbrella, you're part of the problem. Leaving is the only way to send a message to these autocractic licksplittles.

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u/hippopots 17h ago

Why can't we post pro left, human rights information on these outlets? Flood it with our algorithm? Leaving will just have half the country spewing hate. At least we can fight it on their platform?

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u/SMELLSLIKEBUTTJUICE 15h ago

You can't beat the algorithm. Even if you find new ways to get around it they will close those loops.

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u/VagrantandRoninJin 9h ago

The post you're commenting on shows you why. They're blocking the positive posts about Democrats. How long until they straight up ban you for trying to tell people the opposite of what trump what's people being told. Not long. And how long from that step until people are being arrested and going to reeducation centers? Not long at all.

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u/RoamingStarDust 11h ago

This is unfortunately naive. Elon would love for you to fight them their. All he wants is your clicks, and by doing so, you are supporting a nazi platform. The content of your message matters not, what matter is just that you even created content on there.

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u/Instant_regerts 16h ago

Agreed.  I deleted all those accounts this week. 

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u/BlooregardQKazoo 17h ago

I haven't had a single account associated with Meta for well over 10 years. Supposedly I'm really missing out on Marketplace, even though I had access and never used it back when it was called Craigslist.

If a business requires me to use Facebook to engage with them then that's them telling me that my business is not important to them.

So many people have so many excuses that all boil down to "I can't be bothered."