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Meta censored the No Kings Instagram account during a nationwide campaign

https://paulfwalsh.substack.com/p/meta-censored-the-no-kings-instagram
134•slowin•6h ago

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gnabgib•6h ago
Discussion (600 points, 11 days ago, 424 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136881
slowin•5h ago
Why on earth is that flagged?
slim•3h ago
Some king with flagging power flagged it
nekusar•21m ago
Its honestly one of the biggest problems with this site. Some large post, 400 comments in, gets flagged cause of a few snowflakes got their feelings hurt.

And instead of the article just not being shown to them, their whim is forced on everybody.

And even if it is an incendiary news article, the discussions are usually still better than average. But no, a few whinys kill it for everyone.

slowin•16m ago
Indeed, flagging should be disabled for any post with more than like 50 upvotes.
cosmicgadget•2h ago
The headline is old news but the shifting explanations is entertaining.

"Claude's fault."

solid_fuel•1h ago
After the crap they pulled in the latest Brazilian election, there is no reason to give Facebook the benefit of the doubt. They are obviously and intentionally trying to use their extreme influence over online communities to influence elections.

Watch for more fuckery during the current US election season.

pino83•57m ago
People give away our planet and our souls to Facebook since decades now. Everyone knew someone who was uncomfortable with that and who asked whether a little less Facebook wouldn't be more healthy. These ones got ignored.

So, well, I don't like fascists. But if Facebook now makes use of the fact that you gave our world to them, it's hard to blame them for that.

People failed in that regard. Not Facebook. They succeeded. People failed.

freejazz•44m ago
Oh yeah, no murderers, just a system that makes them...
40four•1h ago
Meta can act like they don't know what's happening, but they do. As do all the other tech giants. They've been censoring and curating people feeds for a long time. This story is amusing since it's one instance where a "Team Blue" was affected. In general, it's usually "Team Red" channels are the ones getting censored.

There is an interesting project America's Digital Shield that studies these practices (https://americasdigitalshield.com/). They capture "ephemeral" content from search results and social feeds from volunteers, with a balanced distribution of the political spectrum.

Basically, the idea is that none of the content we get fed from tech giants is unbiased, even search results are manipulated to affect people one way or the other, especially when it comes to politics and elections. It's pretty upsetting once you understand what's happening.

felixgallo•28m ago
the 'team red is being silenced' nonsense was, and is, a transparently synthetic attempt to promote right-wing discourse no matter how ridiculous it was. You may remember that Elon "free speech absolutist" Musk was the champion of this meme, claiming that Twitter was suppressing right wing views, and that every single one of his and Matt Taibbi's claims turned out to have been false or overblown.
digitaltrees•17m ago
Except the team red messages were demonstrably false and related to factual claims. No kings is pure opinion.
kaldev•56m ago
I felt like this whole thing is extremely inorganic. Funded by a WalMart heiress, website went up hours before a massive NYT ad buy, and (in my opinion) what felt like lot of coordinated / paid / botted engagement.

Idk, I don't want the internet to be dictated by followers/engagement that can be easily botted via a SMM panel for pennies.

jfengel•42m ago
How do I get in on that gig? I showed up because I thought I was protecting democracy from a felon who is taking billions in bribes. Like a chump!
kaldev•28m ago
Gambling companies literally pay people to post on twitter?

You can go to an SMM panel right now and get a bot farm to rebrand tens of thousands of accounts on any platform to align with your messaging and spam the fuck out of replies to manufacture consensus. There is a very high chance this exact playbook worked on you lol.

digitaltrees•11m ago
Bs. The facts are clear and independently verifiable. The Dutch government saw Jared k laundering money in real time. Trump is literally bribing voters from the stump. We literally invaded Venezuela took their oil and gold and transferred it to an a foreign bank account controlled by the executive rather than congress. There is an actual active market for bribery to buy pardons and get insider information about presidential policy for trading activities. I can go on and on.
jeremyjh•36m ago
It’s really hard to believe how much people hate that dumb motherfucker?
gigatexal•46m ago
When the Dems take Congress good ol’ Zuck will be woke again. The man has no spine. And because he doesn’t his share price has skyrocketed.
jfengel•38m ago
Congress is largely impotent. Even if Democrats take both houses, it won't be by a veto-proof majority. Congress was designed to be "deliberative", so it has ceded more and more power to the executive branch just so anything actually gets done.

Zuckerberg knows that the power is on Pennsylvania Avenue, not 1st St. Maybe he'll change his mind in a couple of years, but he's going to spend those years doing his best to ensure that he doesn't have to.

gigatexal•35m ago
Step 1 take Congress. Step 2 in 2028 take the White House. Step 3 start fixing all the damage of the last 2 Trump administrations. I’m long the US. We will get there.

Of course he knows where his bread is buttered. And he will cozy up to the new powers too. He has no spine. No moral code. It’s all power and money and meta. Fine. Good for shareholders. Bad for young men everywhere trying to pattern themselves after these barrons of industry.

alex1138•7m ago
I have to agree. The man has always been accused of stealing from others going back to the Winklevosses. He'll take any side is expedient regardless of what you (general 'you') think politically
Kalanos•39m ago
such hypocrisy because free speech is always their excuse not in intervene in algorithms
Ancalagon•39m ago
Getting the sense Meta's internal slogan is literally: "Be Evil."
ks2048•36m ago
“Move fast and break democracy”
jey•34m ago
I'm not a Meta fan or anything, but this does seem kind of tricky to deal with. Specifically that pages/topics which get sudden influx of activity at once can look similar to a coordinated spam campaign. Especially if combined with being flagged opponents who don't want to see that content. It seems like it could be hard to tell the two apart, or at least the false positives seem hard to control.

Can anyone with more experience on these kinds of spam/fraud detection systems could chime in?

aleksandrm•5m ago
Not the first time, and not the last. They just did it again yesterday to Democratic Senate candidate Angie Nixon.

https://newrepublic.com/post/217281/meta-suspend-democratic-...

digitaltrees•4m ago
Remember when zuck considered a presidential run when he saw how Facebook could sway voters and elections? And then Elon bought twitter for the same reason? We are fortunate for their awkward detestable personalities, otherwise they would have had a shot.
kaldev•26m ago
People def do and that's totally fine. You don't feel like the fact that this "movement" is funded by a WalMart heiress is fishy? Full page NYT ads trying to mobilize people into protest?

Organic protests of any sort is fine. Between this shit and the "ChaoticGood" marketing operation ran for Geese, you cannot begin to understand how much of the interaction you see on the web is bought and paid for.

digitaltrees•10m ago
This is an ad hominem attack. It doesn’t matter what the origin of a fact is if it is verifiable and accurate.
stickfigure•8m ago
How does it feel to be part of Putin's disinformation campaign?

What, you don't enjoy having your opinions dismissed because someone famous shares them?

delecti•4m ago
Elon is the largest individual political donor ever. I think a billionaire funding counter-protests is not that fishy in contrast.

I don't think a movement having a bit of funding for the organizers is that big of a deal though. The actual protesters are there because they want to be.

nitwit005•8m ago
The call to protest at some specific location and time might be "artificial", but people have to want to protest. Trump has simply managed to inspire millions to do so.

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