Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election
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Policing themselves is expensive, whereas disinformation campaigns want to pay them money actively. Of course they were going to capitulate.
The right thing to do is stop using these platforms.
They weren’t doing much to begin with, this shits going to boil over next year. Be prepared, armed, and alert for right wing terrorism.
I really won’t want to have to be armed, but I’m feeling more and more compelled.
And this is exactly why the DSA was sorely needed.
On one hand, flat earthers and anti vaxers. On the other the slippery slope of corporations deciding what is factual enough to be allowed in conversation on their platform which is the some if the largest communication systems we have today.
I believe we should be better as a community calling out misinformation but right now I’ve even seen it used on beehaw as a shortcut to say " I disagree with you and I’m upset" rather than calling out actual misinformation.
