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On January 7, 2025, Meta announced sweeping changes to its content moderation policies, including the end of third-party fact-checking in the U.S., and rollbacks to its hate speech policy globally that remove protections for women, people of color, trans people, and more. In the absence of data from Meta, we decided to go straight to users to assess if and how harmful content is manifesting on Meta platforms in the wake of January rollbacks.

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[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

The ones who have hate in their hearts can now shows us all their true colors.

That's a good thing in my eyes. Let them show us exactly who they are.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 minutes ago

That nerdy guy who wants to be an MMF fighter sure is angry, you can tell by his business.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 28 minutes ago

Social Media needs to die

[–] anachrohack@lemmy.world 54 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Meta is the enemy of all of mankind

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

Social Media in general is our most self-destructive invention yet

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 41 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] rumba@piefed.zip 15 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

My #$%^ HOA only socializes through FB groups. Been trying to drum up interest in a defederated Frendica or something, but can't get any traction :( I've unliked all the stuff and unfollowed everything else, but I can't GTFO of it any further without being unable to deal with my neighbors civilly

[–] Coyote_sly@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Your HOA?

Sounds like you add by subtraction twice by deleting Facebook.

[–] Glent@lemmy.ca 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Abandon civility, throw tomahawk instead. Your reputation will precede you. Their fear of you will bring about civility. You got this.

[–] rumba@piefed.zip 7 points 17 hours ago

"Honey, We got a letter from the HOA, they've revoked our pool privileges, you wouldn't know anything about that you'd you?"

[insert Krumbobulous Michael here I go killing again meme]

[–] riskable@programming.dev 20 points 21 hours ago

To me, this is like saying, "4chan has turned into a cesspool!" Yeah: It was like that from the start. YOU were the ones that assumed it was ever safe!

You're posting stuff on the public Internet to a website for adults where literally anyone can sign up and comment FFS.

If you want good moderation you need community moderation from people in that community. Not some giant/evil megacorp!

There's all sorts of tools and platforms that do this properly, easily, and for free. If you don't like Meta's websites move off of them already!

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 11 points 19 hours ago

I do wonder, are seeing more hate, more fear and less freedom because there is more hate, more fear and less freedom, or are we seeing these things because they are now no longer deleted, and there is the same amount of it?

Either way there is no fix for facebook and other facebook owned platforms. Get rid of this shit.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Leave that website.

There is no fixing it.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] andyburke@fedia.io 2 points 10 hours ago
[–] dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This headline is garbage. You could put just about any Fortune 500 company’s name in there and the headline would still be accurate.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

the url too. meta was never safe, and was never intended to be safe. the only way to make it safe is to shut it down.

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 minutes ago

why should anyone want it to be safe?

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

How about... stop using META?

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 minutes ago

I think most of us, here, have. It really is mostly old folks and idiots left now.

Someone mentioned here, their hoa uses fb as their digital square, and my park union does too. I just don't get to get involved with the park union, Facebook unfortunately, has become ingrained in many community oriented organizations. I hate it. I refuse to go back there.

I don't understand why people are ao eager to give their money and privacy to billionaires.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 4 points 20 hours ago

Facebook: makes a system where the only way to get engagement is to hatepost.

People on facebook: hateposts

People: "How could this happen?"

[–] SW42@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

surprised pikachu face

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 3 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not convinced that much of it is real. Many accounts have to be fake. Surely people can't be as stupid as they appear. I think it's AI's funded or designed to be so stupidly biased.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

This kind of thinking is how we end up with extremist politicians like trump. YES PEOPLE ARE THIS STUPID. LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE ARE THIS STUPID. Stop trying to ignore reality.

[–] BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

A bit of both I think.

As a Facebook group administrator I get to see a fair bit of definite fake stuff. Any time someone posts anything with the word stolen for example, a number of fake accounts will attempt to post with names of people who 'can help get your things back'.

They recently got a bit more advanced and will sometimes use 'I'm new here" type posts or similar tricks to try to trick the admin into letting them into the group. It's a public group, hence a juicy target. There's several tricks an AI can use.

That said, we have a fair share of legit nutters, rednecks, NIMBYs, homophobes etc as well - I just suspect some of the EV and renewable energy hatred for example, on Facebook is manufactured.

[–] joekar1990@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

Unfortunately people are that dumb if not dumber, but also yes there are tons of chatbots that are sowing anger and division usually in favor of conservatives. Weird how Elon was talking about how many bots are on Twitter and has completely stopped talking about it.

I look forward to the day when the people wake up and drag the oppressors into the streets.

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago

Working as intended then?

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

The CEO is a genocidal zio. USA is a hate group. What else do people expect?

[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works -3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There’s no speech police in the real world, you don’t need it online either.

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That is the most simplistic, uneducated opinion on the subject that is possible to make. You should be ashamed.

[–] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 hours ago

If that’s the case, it should be easy enough for you to come up with an actual argument against it.

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago

This is why I’ve switched back to the old internet. Chat like irc/matrix for social interaction. RSS for information. And webrings for browsing the personal garden websites that used to constitute the internet before social media took over. It’s been great.

The good internet magazine has been writing about this and is my inspiration

As well as the internet history podcast.

I mean look at what social media took from us. Have fun exploring that webring and following link after link to new web rings and personal gardens. I love it. Reminds me of the early 00s