Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
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"Such speech may be offensive to many, but it is not Meta’s role to police offensiveness" what??????
What even are their policies and community guidelines for? Just publicity. Or as a tool in other cases. Corrupt liars.
Rich people and people in charge (see: police, their kids, even local politicians) don’t have to follow rules, especially rules they wrote. They think that their motives are always justified/pure/exceptional, and so the rules don’t need to apply to them.
META's job is to get people to click and comment. It's all marketing that I walked away from years ago.
The best kind of content for engagement is hate. You get users angrily defending both sides, stacks of comments, reposts (both in support of, and "OMG look at what they're saying), the whole shebang.
Meta has learned that promotion of hate content pays off handsomely on those sweet sweet engagement metrics that shareholders love.
So of course they're going to pay the hatemongers for content. Even when their own content policies ostensibly forbid it. Because that's what makes line go up and they'll do anything to keep that happening.
Ragebait!
Man, this really isn’t the future I was picturing when I was growing up, but here we are.
Hey now, it isn’t only Nazis…
^It’s^ ^also^ ^an^ ^overwhelming^ ^amount^ ^of^ ^CSAM…^
This is something I struggle to accept every day of my life.
Not just Nazis but Nazis that make other Nazis squeamish.
Between this, Cambridge Analytica, and the overall enshittification of society it has brought, can Meta be fucking dissolved already? Or would that be too harmful to the global dopamine hit supply?
Now That Is What I Call A Headline
Yet I'm sure that's exactly what they claim. [insert South Park BP Oil Sorry meme]
BTW:
Yes, my master.
$3b / 16m is $187.5 each account.
Quite
Lucrative
"Hugo Lennon ... believed to be one of the organizers behind an “anti-immigration” march on a sacred Indigenous site in the city last year."
MFW talking to anyone in my red state
Yeah... they're that stupidly-malicious
As if it wasn't obvious enough that nazi posters have special protected status on social media platforms. The report buttons do nothing against them.
That's crazy talk. The report buttons work exactly as intended for racist accounts. Every time someone reports them they make 50 cents.
Oh that's the actual headline lol.
I thought it would be like they paid some people with some ties to fascist groups but some plausible deniability...
But no. Full mask off.
I think you're on the wrong track. Reality is still immensely accessible to you if you go out in the world and critically check the information you've been given against the human reality out there.
Don't lose yourself to the despair or confusion.
Plenty of things make social sense from the last 10 years in local communities, national contexts and international contexts. Both the good and the bad, e.g. a broad normalisation of LGBT and a backlash against it, progress in renewable energy and fights against different diseases, the rise of vaccine skeptics after COVID, the pandemic itself.
Or look at the "Ceuta crisis" in Europe. Images spread, right wing panic ensues, critical media investigates, it's clear that the real situation is completely under control, the whole story becomes about an opportunistic right wing trying to create panic about immigration and left wing Spain.
All of this has played out in a natural, organic human way. Yes, social media has been a big, ugly shift in how communities work, and yes, they definitely work on purpose to simplify things that would previously die off most likely. But if you go outside and open your eyes, the world can make plenty of sense without some inhuman conspiracy beyond regular greed.
And please don't say that anyone that disagrees with you are just victims of propaganda, that's the ideal way to detach yourself from reality.
Your suggestion is to fact check events happening in other countries you read about in person?
No, rather my suggestion is to start rooting yourself in the reality around you, understand the relationship between that reality and the media reporting on it, and then try to understand international events through that lense.
If certain media reports on things in your area in an unreasonable way, it might be that it's a fundamentally unreasonable media. If some group's messaging and ideology doesn't match the reality you see around you, it might be a group detached from reality. Use these learnings to build critical thinking and find media and sources you can trust, or where you at least understand their angle and blind spots.
Of course, it does really help to see the situation around your own country and in other countries with your own eyes. Not everyone has that opportunity, but if you do, seize it, and talk to real people in the community.
I think what's happening is everyone is operating entirely for their own self interest, and after awhile those interests start syncing up. So there's no conscious conspiracy, but people are working together towards a common goal.
It would be more comforting if it were a conscious conspiracy, at least then there would be a goal set by conscious people. But I don't think there is actually anyone at the wheel just all of the parts of a machine working together while we drive off a cliff.
Social media is definitely used to control people and yeah making people hate is the way they're controlling people. But it's a mess of foreign interests and moneyed interests. Foreign interests don't want societal cohesion in their adversaries to weaken them. Moneyed interests don't want cohesion so we can't get it together enough to tax them and regulate their businesses. So they promote radicalization and demonization of centrists and disgusting politics on both the far right and far left to keep everyone divided.
This was very well put. Thank you.
Don't worry. You sound perfectly sane to those that have spent any time investigating the big movements in global society. Good work..
:sigh: I hate when people just tell outright lies for clicks.
Did bad people get money from Meta? Yes.
Did Meta actively pay bad people to post bad content? NO. This is like saying that Youtube had hired people to post AI videos targeting children because they pay people part of the advertising they sell on videos. It is not the same thing at all.
If a Walmart employee beats you up while they're on the clock, these twits would post "WALMART HIRED AND PAID PEOPLE TO BEAT INNOCENT PEOPLE UP".
Am I saying Meta is great? No1 Fuck you no! But is this headline bullshit? YES IT IS.
I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you! Ok not even a tiny bit.
That tracks.
Facebook spent years claiming it couldn’t control what its platform amplified: Apparently it gets much easier when it’s time to write the checks.
i would be surprised if they wouldnt, because they only ever push right wing material on FB.
That shortened headline phrasing is semantically ambiguous. With context it's clear, but it can also be read as "Meta has caught paying nazis in order to post on Facebook"
Imagine what his ancestors would think of Zuckerberg when if they could read this.
Vasily Grossman, a Ukrainian Jew himself, wrote this after WW II on Jewish Nazi sympathizers and collaborators:
Milliardäre lieben Nazis? Schock
From the article:
It's much bigger than just corporate 'profits' ! This is the US/western oligarch Class pushing the world to the brink of WW3, only because they are trying to hinder China and others from eclipsing them and thereby taking away the exorbitant power they have commanded for several hundred years, while colonizing and exploiting the world..
Meta and the Zuck are colluding with the US Epstein Class to manipulate the entire 'western' hemisphere of people where Meta/facebook are present.
This is psychopathy/manipulation on a civilizational scale, and the Zuck and all his Epstein buddies will need to pay the consequences of that at some point.
Nazism have gotten a deliberate revival in the western information sphere.
We had the same celebration of Nazi c*nts in Canada, where Trudeau pulled out an old Ukrainian Nazi, and let him be paraded in their parliamentarian chambers - together with Zelensky oc.
If we go further back, we see that a throng of nazi's from old Germany/Europe was saved/relocated and protected by the Western psycho Oligarchy, that was just waiting to trigger them again later.
We even see that many of the current unelected top EU elite have families that have close connections to this archaic and disgusting ideology, through parents, or grandparents.
We see techlords that have WAY to close connections, and families that openly express similar attitudes.
What is especially interesting, is that the situation in Ukraine was escalated by US through local Nazi groups that were also nurtured since 1990'ies by the US/CIA, and we see how Ukraine is controlled by Nazi groups today (they all have Bandera and Nazi signs everywhere and their nazi groups vocally confirms it despite being told to hide it now).
My bet is that Meta worked closely with US oligarchy, to manipulate the western population towards accepting nazi attitudes, as something more normal, and hopefully for them, nurture a new breed of nationalists ready to kill others for the Zuck and the Epsteins..
For other hardcore investigators out there: This site is by Danish Sociologist and researcher Lars Jørgensen: https://homosociologicus.com/history-of-20-21-century
Very high quality in general.