In the wake of Meta’s decision to remove its third-party fact-checking system and loosen content moderation policies, Google searches on how to delete
  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    47·
    11 hours ago

    I certainly hope a majority of Fediverse operators will decide to defederate Threads. I always thought it was important not to help Zuck grow his walled garden for free, but now it’s clearly a matter of decency.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Decency or even legality. If Zuck knowingly hosts hate speech, you don’t want that federated onto your platform or you can be sued, too.

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    811·
    11 hours ago

    I love how journalism is all garbage, even the one around technology. It just took a bunch of declarations and suddenly Meta/FB is the target to avoid and cancel. As if there weren’t many more and much better reasons to NOT use those platforms than this simple and expected political realignment.

    • dexa_scantron@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 hours ago

      Yes, I only respect journalists who never update their opinions or recommendations given new information. Everyone needs to use psychic foresight to determine the best takes and then never ever change them. Meta was always exactly as bad as it is today. /s

      • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        11 hours ago

        The Cambridge Analytica thing happened in 2018. I think the point is that Facebook has been a bad platform for awhile now and these recent articles don’t do justice to their history and appear extremely inflammatory as a result.

        • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
          3·
          10 hours ago

          Yeah, and 1. Even in 2018 there was only like 25% more searches compared to the 2012 and 2025 peak of 100% more 2. TechCrunch covered #deletefacebook when that happened anyways 3. 2012 was “The Year Facebook Finally Tried to Make Some Money”. I don’t see what people mean by “not doing justice”, as TechCrunch seems to be covering how to delete Facebook when people want to delete Facebook.

          • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            9 hours ago

            Yeah. I don’t disagree with that. But I think it’s rather more about (from what I can see in the original comment) not the tech run h media coverage, but the idea that tech crunch runs lots of articles about meta and Facebook, not all of them aimed at the problems with the platform and there is no cohesion (in each of these posts), explaining each time they have before given info on leaving Facebook and the important events that lead them to do so.

            The article doesn’t really start off with a “haven’t we been here before”, or anything acknowledging what came before. Perhaps the last their complaint.