Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

  • chaogomu@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Facebook Hired Joel fucking Kaplan right after he left the Bush White House. Kaplan personally exempted rightwing conspiracy news sites from Facebook’s truth standards, while also deprioritizing more overtly left leaning sites.

    He personally nixed any change to the Facebook algorithm that would reduce the radicalization pipeline.

    Oh, and he also stuffed Facebook management with right-wing yes men.

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      1 year ago

      Thank you. At least someone remembers that Facebook/Meta has been a right winger echo chamber earlier than Musk’s version