The company’s invite-only program for content creators has accounts promoting white supremacy, neo-Nazi ideologies and histories of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.
    • TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      I don’t get it either. I imagine it’s a side effect of being naturally more fearful, and stupid, so they get sucked into the right-wing media spiral which then tells them this is one more thing for them to be afraid of. Maybe. I think the reason can just be loosely tied to “family values”, or religion, or “our country”, or drag queens, etc. and that’s all it takes. They don’t need a solid line of logic and reason, they just need to be led to the conclusion along any path, then anger and fear cements the response in place.

    • matlag@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      A decent amount of them are gays in denial. They can’t handle and take it out on the ones who can.

    • Frettchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 hours ago

      No. They are not concerned about the genitals. At least if it’s not a woman under age. They want control. They feel lost and want more

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      FB is useful propaganda tool to promote right wing, usually russian backed to the conservatives. that so happens to be the largest blocs of r voters.

    • Pratai@piefed.caEnglish
      5·
      21 hours ago

      They’re stupid. That’s why. They stand on fake moral high grounds shouting down at everyone for supporting oppressive buisnessses, while addicted to their sweet sweet Facebook because [STUPID FUCKING REASON].

      Anyone that would leave Facebook already has. The rest are just people that want you to think they give a shit about the people being hurt by it.

    • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
      16·
      1 day ago

      Most people don’t care about things. They just want the convenience. Eat the marshmallows now. Getting a stomach ache later is some future problem.

    • alphabethunter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      17 hours ago

      I have this discussion with a lot of people from the left, who often say they need to occupy those spaces and not let them be only a cesspool for conservative spiel. However, what they don’t seem to understand no matter how fucking much I tell them, is that you cannot win a game your opponent controls the rules. The only solution to traditional social media is to pressure the government to ban it. Not regulation, bans are the only way.

        • alphabethunter@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          I am not from the USA, so that’s a problem for y’all to figure it out. However, the answer is usually quite simple: hit them where it hurts. Here where I live the government has not yet been fully controlled by the fascist right, so we still have a chance to use legal and civil devices. But if not, just remember what the french did.

    • DrPop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      24 hours ago

      My family uses it, and i value access to my family over having to be on the site. The expectation of making everyone switch to something else for my sake is unreasonable. I only use the desktop site and IA mostly because that’s how my family plans birthday parties. I’ve asked them to let me know directly and that hasn’t changed so rather than miss out on my nieces’ birthday parties I suck or up.

    • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 day ago

      Not just refusing to remove disinformation, but also actively removing the accounts of Lula supporters and for a brief time Lula’s official campaign account.

      All because Zuck specifically hired Joel Kaplan in 2009 to “engender closer ties to conservatives”. Joel Kaplan, who as a Bush Lawyer, participated in the Brooks Brothers riot of 2000, which stopped the recount in Florida, and then was rewarded with a Bush Whitehouse position.