Ryan Ragona on Mythryl: “I can hear the meeting: “it’s about giving users the ability to…”

I can hear the meeting: “it’s about giving users the ability to choose their content. we don’t want paternalism, these are informed adults.” subtext: “facism is so hot right now. we have to support that user base, or we’ll lose too many eyeballs. and god knows what the new administration will do.”

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

Meta is getting rid of factcheckers, recommending political material and “dramatically reducing the amount of censorship” (of Far Right material), Zuckerberg has just announced. Welcome to the new Twitter.

theguardian.comMeta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political contentMark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads

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