Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, medical pioneer who received the world's first experimental rat penis transplant, announced today that the social media juggernaut would stop fact checking.
  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    23 days ago

    They stopped fact checking just like Twitter didn’t stop fact checking. It means they only stopped fact checking right wing news or popular posts that Zuckerberg doesn’t like.

    I assure you, if a Luigi post got popular, Facebook will “fact check” it before it gains traction.

    • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      23 days ago

      Just like any corporate status quo enforcer would yeah. Eh this is me probably preaching to the choir.

      • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlEnglish
        23·
        23 days ago

        Now that you mention it, it’s interesting, considering how we all share the same views, how we use this platform to preach to ourselves rather than to organize and collaborate

        • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          21 days ago

          I’ve long said that it’s possible venting anger on social media may be kinda like announcing you’re gonna do something healthy and then not actually following through, because the brain’s flawed reward system gives you the good feel chemicals for just fantasizing about going on that run instead of actually going for a run.

          The next question I consider is if it wasn’t a deliberate consequence in the early internet…are the billionaire corporates in charge of social media platforms aware of this now, thereby actively seeking out ways to make us docile more efficiently so we don’t get “uppity?”

    • Agrivar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      23 days ago

      I’ve still got one I keep semi-active (to stay in touch with long-distance relatives who aren’t tech-savvy enough to move past their first social media site, LOL) and I’ll happily post this over there!

      • criticon@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        23 days ago

        I keep mine alive for the same reason. This got me to post there for the first time since 2 or 3 years

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    45·
    23 days ago

    Ya know if the online world becomes such a cesspool because of Musk and Zuckerberg that it actually brings back the old internet, that would be fucking funny.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      23 days ago

      In fact, it exceeds the metaverse maximum by exactly 3 inches. I saw an internal meeting about it where he said “take that, Chad. Who’s got a small dick now?”

  • Rowan Thorpe@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    22 days ago

    Yet, although this exhibits strong The Onion energy, strictly speaking this could be posted in Not The Onion. Names matter, and I would love to be a fly on the wall witnessing the momentary meltdowns when people read this there…