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Re:Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-f... by reaperducer on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:20PM (#26840096)
On Facebook, you now can't post the link to this New York Post article... FB will also prevent you from posting the Newsweek article which describes how the platform is blocking the New York Post article."

And amazingly, there are Facebook employees on HN all the time who can't understand why people hate Facebook.

I recently spent time with a couple of relatives who only get news from Facebook. I suspect there are millions of other people who do the same. (Because it's free and if it's on the internet, it must be true!)

This illustrates that they only know about the things that Facebook wants them to know.

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Re:Facebook prevents sharing New York Post story on BLM co-f... by mbg721 on Saturday April 17, 2021 @01:43PM (#26846004)
But that isn't the reason for most of the Facebook hate, is it? I thought it was more "I just want my cousin's baby pictures, and you're spamming my feed with outrage porn." The people who actually want to use Facebook for news at all know the dumpster-fire they're going to get.
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