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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by fzeindl on Thursday July 10, 2025 @03:45AM (#44518396)
I wonder if the purpose of naming it „X“, just like naming „Facebook“ meta is to do the opposite of SEO: Make it harder to find news pertaining to the company and their scandals.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by messagebus on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:14AM (#44518969)
A UK politician lay down in the House of Commons in order to fill the search indices with "Jacob Rees-Mogg lying"

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/jacob-reesmogg-admi...

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by TiredOfLife on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:31AM (#44519055)
Facebook is still called Facebook.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by fzeindl on Friday July 11, 2025 @03:22PM (#44535962)
Yes but articles mentioning only meta, but not Facebook, will be found on google in the middle of unrelated articles.
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