Facebook freezes Venezuela president Maduro's page over Covid-19

Re:Facebook freezes Venezuela president Maduro's page over C... by anovikov on Saturday March 27, 2021 @02:13PM (#26604177)

Thing is, any substantiative discussion will be way too complex for most people who could fall to these conspiracy theories, to understand, and they will arrive to a conclusion like "these Jews are trying to look too smart and bullshit us".

Sadly, this asymmetrical warfare from authoritarian nations hits the right point: it forces us to either let misinformation flow and people become manipulated by it, or to revert to authoritarian measures by gradually chipping away freedom of speech.

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Re:Facebook freezes Venezuela president Maduro's page over C... by postmeta on Saturday March 27, 2021 @05:40PM (#26605881)

or increase transparency and demand accountability from platforms amplifying messages without transparent traceability of information.

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Re:Facebook freezes Venezuela president Maduro's page over C... by anovikov on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:29AM (#26608216)

...which is the exact opposite of what these platforms, as businesses, were designed to do: maximally amplify and disperse the most "clickable" information - which is the one understandable to everyone (dumb) and appealing to people's instincts (authoritarian, because we are herd animals).

given the power these platforms have, i highly doubt this attempt to regulate their business in a clearly negative way to them, can be successful. they are so powerful, even CCP is afraid of them, starting a crackdown on social media in China.

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