Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship
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Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.
  • Kichae ( Kichae@lemmy.ca ) English
    47·
    2 years ago

    Facebook: Now an unmoderated space, except for if you report on what Facebook is saying. Or criticize the actual social hierarchy in any way.

  • themurphy ( themurphy@lemmy.ml ) 
    24·
    2 years ago

    Seems like they watch Twitter and how they get away with being next level scummy and want to make this the new normal.

    There’s not even a good rival to Facebook. It’s a shitshow and people use it anyway.

    • The Doctor ( drwho@beehaw.org ) English
      15·
      2 years ago

      That’s how a lot of companies do stuff, though. They see what competitors get away with, figure out how moving the Overton window a little more will benefit them, and if the payoff is more than the risk they do it. That’s how advertising has become so ubiquitous, that’s how selling user data became so common: Wait for someone else to take the heat, make preparations while the controversy is happening, and when it dies down take the next step in that direction.

    • coyotino [he/him] ( theangriestbird@beehaw.org ) OPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      tbh it’s where i get a lot of my memes. there are still a lot of good pages and groups run by funny people. generally i view it as bad for me in the same way it’s always been bad for me, too much easy dopamine or whatever. Misinformation is out there and censorship is out there, but that’s why i don’t rely on FB for news.

    • coyotino [he/him] ( theangriestbird@beehaw.org ) OPEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      i mean, they are on Facebook too. If you are a journalist or a publication, you have to go to where the people are to spread the word about your articles, even if the people are on a platform you do not like. I’ve had mixed feelings about this lately with regards to X (a neo-nazi platform) and artists that continue to use that platform. But at the end of the day, unless you are a large organization with lots of influence, you need to be on social media to survive.

      • ryper ( ryper@lemmy.ca ) English
        6·
        2 years ago

        They’re not posting to Facebook because they need to. From the article:

        The silver lining here is that Facebook was already increasingly a waste of our time. The only reason we’re able to share our stories via our official Facebook page is that we’ve fully automated that process, because it is not actually worth our time to post our stories there organically. Since before we started 404 Media, we knew there was very little chance that Facebook would help us reach people, grow our audience, and make the case that people should support our journalism, so in a way we lost nothing because there’s nothing to lose.