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Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign

95 points slowin 5 hours ago 13 comments

gnabgib 5 hours ago | parent

Discussion (600 points, 11 days ago, 424 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136881

slowin 5 hours ago | parent

Why on earth is that flagged?

slim 2 hours ago | parent

Some king with flagging power flagged it

cosmicgadget 1 hour ago | parent

The headline is old news but the shifting explanations is entertaining.

"Claude's fault."

solid_fuel 41 minutes ago | parent

After the crap they pulled in the latest Brazilian election, there is no reason to give Facebook the benefit of the doubt. They are obviously and intentionally trying to use their extreme influence over online communities to influence elections.

Watch for more fuckery during the current US election season.

pino83 17 minutes ago | parent

People give away our planet and our souls to Facebook since decades now. Everyone knew someone who was uncomfortable with that and who asked whether a little less Facebook wouldn't be more healthy. These ones got ignored.

So, well, I don't like fascists. But if Facebook now makes use of the fact that you gave our world to them, it's hard to blame them for that.

People failed in that regard. Not Facebook. They succeeded. People failed.

freejazz 5 minutes ago | parent

Oh yeah, no murderers, just a system that makes them...

40four 28 minutes ago | parent

Meta can act like they don't know what's happening, but they do. As do all the other tech giants. They've been censoring and curating people feeds for a long time. This story is amusing since it's one instance where a "Team Blue" was affected. In general, it's usually "Team Red" channels are the ones getting censored.

There is an interesting project America's Digital Shield that studies these practices (https://americasdigitalshield.com/). They capture "ephemeral" content from search results and social feeds from volunteers, with a balanced distribution of the political spectrum.

Basically, the idea is that none of the content we get fed from tech giants is unbiased, even search results are manipulated to affect people one way or the other, especially when it comes to politics and elections. It's pretty upsetting once you understand what's happening.

kaldev 16 minutes ago | parent

I felt like this whole thing is extremely inorganic. Funded by a WalMart heiress, website went up hours before a massive NYT ad buy, and (in my opinion) what felt like lot of coordinated / paid / botted engagement.

Idk, I don't want the internet to be dictated by followers/engagement that can be easily botted via a SMM panel for pennies.

jfengel 3 minutes ago | parent

How do I get in on that gig? I showed up because I thought I was protecting democracy from a felon who is taking billions in bribes. Like a chump!

gigatexal 6 minutes ago | parent

When the Dems take Congress good ol’ Zuck will be woke again. The man has no spine. And because he doesn’t his share price has skyrocketed.