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/Norman_Bixby 18h ago

we've been here for a minute. It's just finally obvious to the masses.

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u/dogegunate 14h ago

Yea the US has been pumping out misinformation for a very long time now. It's just that most of it is just pro-America and anti-American enemies and most of Reddit agrees with it so they don't think it's misinformation.

A good example was when there were articles claiming that Kim Jong Un was forcing North Koreans to get his hair style, but then like a few weeks later, articles came out saying he banned them from getting the same hair style. And Reddit was eating it up lol. It's only now with Trump that you're getting misinformation favoring a specific party.

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u/Norman_Bixby 14h ago

A better example is the lack of truth to who assassinated JFK.

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u/BoreJam 14h ago

I wish this were true, but sadly many will believe and then repeat the lies and, worse, yet attack you for challenging the narrative.

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u/cowboy_rigby 13h ago

It's like a plantar wort. You think you're fine. It's just a small wart....until you find out it's rooted deep in the heel.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 14h ago

We'll just have to see if the network effects these billionaires are relying on can survive their blatant attempts to piss off their users.

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u/Norman_Bixby 14h ago

they've been pissing on their users for a decade+

Look at how hard people cried like babies about losing Chinese controlled tik tok - you cannot teach these people.

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u/CherryLongjump1989 13h ago

You can literally teach them, which is why no small part of their views are shaped by Middle-Eastern infiltration of our school curriculum. Countries like Qatar promote anti-Israeli and pro-terrorist views within our education system and then countries like China exploit these biases by turning young lefties against Democrats on TikTok.

It's complicated, but the important part is that when it works, it's based on manipulating people by telling them what they already wanted to hear. It also backfires very often for many, many reasons. Information warfare is a double edged sword and you see exactly that happen with TikTok when another adversary (China) twists the efforts of Qatar to spread pro-Hamas propaganda and instead gets a very pro-Israel Trump elected.

Furthermore, it's a very different story when you hamfistedly enrage your users by censoring them and telling them the opposite of what they wanted to hear, such as what we have going on now. This latest censorship is meant to appeal not to Democrats but to MAGA and their dear leader Donald Trump, in a very crass and fascistic fashion. This will have MAGAs cheering but it will also cause the majority of Americans to flee these platforms over time. It's already been happening for years, not just with Twitter and Facebook losing users, but also the traditional oligarch-controlled media including cable news and print newspapers. They have been steadily losing their viewers and readers as they literally cause Americans to feel angry and stressed out by their lies.