And orders that will ultimately benefit Putin... couldn't be easier to find someone who doesn't care about American values and have them break apart the country and world structure you hate so much
LifeLog was a project by DARPA similar to what FB is, and was "shelved" on February 4th, 2004, because of privacy concern, not getting permission from government etc. Same day Facebook was "created" by Zuckerberg.
Call it a "coincidence" but same thing here people accepted it easily because it came from an unknown civilian, not from government.
I don't think it glorified anything. Zuckerberg was portrayed as a thief and a piece of shit, who sold out his closest friend that helped him every step of the way until he was no longer needed. A bunch of shallow, albeit intelligent people, pursuing the goal of making money at the cost of being decent humans. The only reason they're taken seriously is because big money sees the value in their product, and so they capitulate to his childish behavior. It's not anything more than a cautionary tale. From the very start to the very end, the theme is clear. Mark Zuckerberg is an intelligent bully. Hell, the last moment of the movie is Zuckerberg refreshing a Facebook page hoping that someone he had treated poorly earlier in the film would accept his 'friend request'. He is left alone, atop a pile of money, surrounded by people who he paid to be there.
I don't recall much glorification, just a bunch of assholes being assholes to each other in attempts to be the biggest asshole. Almost no one is likable or portrayed as if they are, everyone is constantly telling Zuck he's a selfish shit, and it's basically even what it ends on: no matter how rich he is, he's still just an asshole.
I liked Facebook as a way to keep in touch with friends. That was over a decade ago. To my memory around 2015 is when everybody I know just stopped using it.
I feel that was MySpace not facebook that was more of a keep in touch with friends. Facebook was always setup as predatory from the start as it launched as a "hot or not" type of site.
I don't think social media per se is a failed experiment. I think social media could be very useful and meaningful, and once was. The problem is that enshittification makes everything a failure regardless of what it is.
Agreed. The experiment was whether we as a society (or American society) would use this medium for good or ill. The profit motive over ruled and cannibalized everything, hence the enshitification.
Same here. I reported too many bot accounts. Same thing happened to my original account. I just block now.
Edit: Just a clarification, reddit doesn't like it when you report too many hasbara accounts. Best, block them and move on. They're all in the grift and profiting from apartheid, genocide and human right violations.
I fantasize about a reality show where we take the 10 richest people in America and strip them of their money and make them start from the very bottom with no contacts to help them, because it’ll be illegal to give these people unreasonable or unusual help, while a camera crew follows them around for 5 years. No they don’t get paid, it’s court ordered. That’s my fantasy
Everything started going downhill bad when dislike buttons were removed from all social media. Reminder of why that was bad: it normalize unpopular takes and gave stage to terrible things and people as credible
Exactly this! Content that make people angry drives engagement, but when people disliked the content it got less viral due to the algorithms not pushing disliked content. By removing the button they got rid of this problem. It was basically a way for the people to self-monitor the content shown on the site, they didn’t like that.
Are you referring to Zuckerberg claiming the Biden administration pressured them to censor the bullshit people posted about the COVID vaccine? Is that it? Because if we're censoring bullshit that misinforms the general public and puts them unnecessarily in harms way, I'm ok with it. But if we want to feed idiots bullshit, I'm on with that too since I'm not an idiot.
Oh, ok. We were all trying to give you the benefit of the doubt by assuming that you were talking about something that wasn't a batshit crazy conspiracy theory. But no, you were aiming at batshit crazy all along.
You redhats have almost as much lust for that damn laptop as Trump does for his own daughter.
Don't you have more pressing concerns? Like, what you're gonna do when the Epstein Files release and over half the pantheon you worship are outed as kiddie diddlers?
Reminds me a lot of Russia, you can run your business however you like, as long as it's legal and benefits the tzar president, and that first part only applies to the small businesses
Yep, just like the Biden administration did when it came to Hunter and covid.
"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged that Facebook made a mistake in limiting the circulation of theNew York Post's story about Hunter Biden's laptop ahead of the 2020 election. He has also stated that officials from the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor COVID-19 related content in 2021. "
You have quotation marks but no attribution. That makes your quote absolutely useless. Or, to quote someone else, "Reddit user Burrito_Baggins likes to wear a giant banana suit in public so that people think he's a fun, zany guy." And since it's a quote, it must be true.
So strange that prior to the election there was no way to stop or flag posts that were misleading/false or outrighted bigoted, but some how they have figured out how to ban specific content just a few months later. Where there is a will there is a way.
"The book gained media coverage following reports that Meta sued to prevent Wynn-Williams from promoting the book; public backlash against Meta's response have been credited with boosting sales of the book, a result known as the Streisand effect."
Private ownership of literally everything means those who own everything can take it away whenever it's convenient for them. Maybe there's some other way.
This may go without saying, but tying your organization's presence on the internet to a social media company, and especially a specific social media company, is a hell of a risk.
Usa with orange dick-tator does quick run to become russia/belarus etc 2.0
Im thinking that previous elections were the last fairly free and this idiot will be in white house until he dies.
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I highly encourage everyone to look at how Putin took over the media in Russia.
Now look at Trump......
who do you think is giving him advice?
Orders, not just advice
And orders that will ultimately benefit Putin... couldn't be easier to find someone who doesn't care about American values and have them break apart the country and world structure you hate so much
However u guys voted him in office so…
35.7% of the country voted for him. Only 76% of voters showed up, trump won with 49% of those who voted.
Voting against the worst choice, is a better alternative than not voting , and hopefully people realized that.
2025 local elections give me some hope that possibly 2026 and 2028 will be better
Didnt vote for him, nor do I vote for either party really
You realize you’re part of the problem then, right?
I live in DC. Vote (and rights) hardly matters here as its like 90% Democratic/liberal every election
And, you do realize if everyone thought like that, there'd be 0% votes every election? If you don't vote, then let that be your epitaph.
What makes this even worse is, that the US not only controls US social media, but basically the world’s.
Didn't Facebook sell user data to Russia after being made to take down Farmville?
Never expected to type that sentence out tbh
It’s called self-censorship
I feel validated for my feelings that The Social Network was distasteful in its glorifying of what was really a stroke of bad luck for humanity.
LifeLog was a project by DARPA similar to what FB is, and was "shelved" on February 4th, 2004, because of privacy concern, not getting permission from government etc. Same day Facebook was "created" by Zuckerberg.
Call it a "coincidence" but same thing here people accepted it easily because it came from an unknown civilian, not from government.
Exactly. I feel the same way about that movie. It’s a horror flick to me.
I don't think it glorified anything. Zuckerberg was portrayed as a thief and a piece of shit, who sold out his closest friend that helped him every step of the way until he was no longer needed. A bunch of shallow, albeit intelligent people, pursuing the goal of making money at the cost of being decent humans. The only reason they're taken seriously is because big money sees the value in their product, and so they capitulate to his childish behavior. It's not anything more than a cautionary tale. From the very start to the very end, the theme is clear. Mark Zuckerberg is an intelligent bully. Hell, the last moment of the movie is Zuckerberg refreshing a Facebook page hoping that someone he had treated poorly earlier in the film would accept his 'friend request'. He is left alone, atop a pile of money, surrounded by people who he paid to be there.
I don't recall much glorification, just a bunch of assholes being assholes to each other in attempts to be the biggest asshole. Almost no one is likable or portrayed as if they are, everyone is constantly telling Zuck he's a selfish shit, and it's basically even what it ends on: no matter how rich he is, he's still just an asshole.
Further proof - if needed - that social media is a failed experiment carried out on the vast majority of humanity.
I liked Facebook as a way to keep in touch with friends. That was over a decade ago. To my memory around 2015 is when everybody I know just stopped using it.
I feel that was MySpace not facebook that was more of a keep in touch with friends. Facebook was always setup as predatory from the start as it launched as a "hot or not" type of site.
Will you join my Mafia Wars?
I don't think social media per se is a failed experiment. I think social media could be very useful and meaningful, and once was. The problem is that enshittification makes everything a failure regardless of what it is.
Agreed. The experiment was whether we as a society (or American society) would use this medium for good or ill. The profit motive over ruled and cannibalized everything, hence the enshitification.
... and people thought the constant onslaught of spam and scam ads, the AI-generated fake news, and abuse by random commenters weren't that bad.
When will they finally learn not to trust corporations with their social life and delete their Meta accounts?
My account got suspended last week (for reporting too many hateful posts is my guess...) and I don't regret it one bit.
Same here. I reported too many bot accounts. Same thing happened to my original account. I just block now.
Edit: Just a clarification, reddit doesn't like it when you report too many hasbara accounts. Best, block them and move on. They're all in the grift and profiting from apartheid, genocide and human right violations.
When this regime falls, remember everything that these billionaire cunts did to appease their corrupt leader. Make billionaires poor.
The French have a good way dealing with the ruling class. Refer 1790’s
I fantasize about a reality show where we take the 10 richest people in America and strip them of their money and make them start from the very bottom with no contacts to help them, because it’ll be illegal to give these people unreasonable or unusual help, while a camera crew follows them around for 5 years. No they don’t get paid, it’s court ordered. That’s my fantasy
Everything started going downhill bad when dislike buttons were removed from all social media. Reminder of why that was bad: it normalize unpopular takes and gave stage to terrible things and people as credible
Exactly this! Content that make people angry drives engagement, but when people disliked the content it got less viral due to the algorithms not pushing disliked content. By removing the button they got rid of this problem. It was basically a way for the people to self-monitor the content shown on the site, they didn’t like that.
Donald J Trump is a piece of shit. And in this instance, we get it add Mark Zuckerberg is a piece of shit as well.
Where were you when the Biden administration pressured Zuckerberg and other social media companies to censor content?
Are you referring to Zuckerberg claiming the Biden administration pressured them to censor the bullshit people posted about the COVID vaccine? Is that it? Because if we're censoring bullshit that misinforms the general public and puts them unnecessarily in harms way, I'm ok with it. But if we want to feed idiots bullshit, I'm on with that too since I'm not an idiot.
No, I'm talking about scrubbing information related to Hunters laptop.
Are we still talking about that? Catch up, there's worse shit happening out there nowadays ffs.
The russian propaganda laptop? Is that the one you mean?
No, this was Hunter Biden's laptop or it could have been the Big Guy's. Good thing he got pardoned for whatever was on that Russian computer though.
Oh, ok. We were all trying to give you the benefit of the doubt by assuming that you were talking about something that wasn't a batshit crazy conspiracy theory. But no, you were aiming at batshit crazy all along.
You redhats have almost as much lust for that damn laptop as Trump does for his own daughter.
Don't you have more pressing concerns? Like, what you're gonna do when the Epstein Files release and over half the pantheon you worship are outed as kiddie diddlers?
Reminds me a lot of Russia, you can run your business however you like, as long as it's legal and benefits the
tzarpresident, and that first part only applies to the small businessesOK. Now shut down meta completely.
DARPA will not let it happened.
Oh so they can monitor and remove social media content.
When it suits them.
Yep, just like the Biden administration did when it came to Hunter and covid.
"Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged that Facebook made a mistake in limiting the circulation of the New York Post's story about Hunter Biden's laptop ahead of the 2020 election. He has also stated that officials from the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor COVID-19 related content in 2021. "
You have quotation marks but no attribution. That makes your quote absolutely useless. Or, to quote someone else, "Reddit user Burrito_Baggins likes to wear a giant banana suit in public so that people think he's a fun, zany guy." And since it's a quote, it must be true.
Nothing new from companies based in the usa.
Fascism enablers.
Oh look! It’s Goebbels and Hitler
So strange that prior to the election there was no way to stop or flag posts that were misleading/false or outrighted bigoted, but some how they have figured out how to ban specific content just a few months later. Where there is a will there is a way.
Heritage Foundation. Stephen Miller And Russ Vought. With Karoline Leavitt, who was a HF instructor.
Of course they want to fuck more of your kids
Fuck Zuck. There’s only a very short list of people who are more to blame than him for the social, moral, and mental health ills besetting society.
Republicans as a whole are truly evil human garbage. Oxygen thieves the lot of them.
"FreE sPEecH"
Careless People is a phenomenal listen/read
"The book gained media coverage following reports that Meta sued to prevent Wynn-Williams from promoting the book; public backlash against Meta's response have been credited with boosting sales of the book, a result known as the Streisand effect."
Love this.
Private ownership of literally everything means those who own everything can take it away whenever it's convenient for them. Maybe there's some other way.
Free speech! Freedom! Liberty! My bollocks!
Do people still use metabook, or whatever it's called now?
Any link to this story? Don't fall for manufactured crises
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/dec/11/meta-shuts-down-global-accounts-linked-to-abortion-advice-and-queer-content
This may go without saying, but tying your organization's presence on the internet to a social media company, and especially a specific social media company, is a hell of a risk.
Did somebody say boycott?
Usa with orange dick-tator does quick run to become russia/belarus etc 2.0 Im thinking that previous elections were the last fairly free and this idiot will be in white house until he dies.
This deserves a FIFA peace prize.