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Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads ... by lesuorac on Sunday September 27, 2026 @07:41AM (#49865792)
Say what you want.

Pretty much every time somebody backs up these kinds of claims it shows something else.

1) posts going out 500 times a day in all caps (who is arguing you can’t suppress spam?)

2) the post that you read and so clearly wasn’t suppressed.

3) they’re linking to a low scoring comment

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Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads ... by LtWorf on Sunday September 27, 2026 @07:47AM (#49865840)
Socials should do no scoring whatsoever. Once you score you are editorialising which means you should have a director that is liable for everything published.

If you don't want that, no editorialising, let people see just the people they follow or what their friends share and that is it.

Can't have it both ways.

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Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads ... by lesuorac on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:00AM (#49866307)
They absolutely should do scoring. Imagine i posted this comment as a response to every single other comment here.

Nobody is going to want to use a platform with spam.

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Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads ... by margalabargala on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:27AM (#49866925)
No, they should not do scoring. The end result is strictly better. Like you said, no one is going to want to use a platform with so much spam.
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Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads ... by LtWorf on Sunday September 27, 2026 @12:06PM (#49867944)
> Imagine i posted this comment as a response to every single other comment here.

I don't know you, this is not a social. If we were friends and you did that I'd unfriend you and be done.

The alternative being having human moderators, which socials don't want to have because it costs money.

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Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads ... by lesuorac on Sunday September 27, 2026 @01:42PM (#49868933)
This is social media.

You may not feel that way and thats fine. Just like people think the world is flat. Nothing you do is going to be affected by that ignorance.

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Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads ... by LtWorf on Sunday September 27, 2026 @04:02PM (#49870283)
Changing definitions of words to win imaginary arguments. Ok you won.
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Re:Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads ... by lesuorac on Sunday September 27, 2026 @08:59PM (#49872356)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media

Words change around you. Much like how Republican doesn’t mean fiscal responsibility or small government for many decades.

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