Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags
Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags
Users are outraged as Meta automatically made them follow Trump and Vance on Facebook and blocked #Democrat hashtags on Instagram.
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It is important to note that if you followed the official VP Harris or POTUS Biden, those accounts were turned over to Vance and Trump yesterday. It's not actually an auto-follow because you were already following them.
Great context
Important context, yes.
But also of note is that there were users who tried to unfollow and it would re-add. Only blocking worked.
So its not as clean here as it seems.
Friend of mine showed a screenshot that the official FLOTUS was just renamed to add "archive"
Well that is pretty fucking shitty then. Either conceptualize the potus account as being all presidents ever or don't autosub people to the new different account.
Probably because Melania doesn't want to use it.
She was just gonna copy paste Dr. Biden's posts anyway.
I wonder if trump is now paying people to comb back through previous posts to look for things he can delete or edit to rewrite history. Now that I've said I feel fairly sure he's doing exactly that because he does anything dishonest that he can which is tolerated
Yeah, except he'll never pay them.
I don't think so. My understanding is NARA actually owns those accounts. He'll disable NARA and then go back and change posts made during Obama and Biden's presidencies.
Nara?
National Archives and Records Administration
Thanks. Makes sense
Oh there will most definitely be a Ministry of Truth.
That just sounds like a dumb way to do it.
That's the way they do it, these accounts belong to the current potus and vp
Itsan outdated practice but its not stupid in a traditional democracy. Who the elected official is should not make a difference in wether or not people are interested to know what government communicates.
Changing it would be like if in the old days your dedicated radio station changing frequencies because they got a new boss. Plenty (old people) would just be confused on why there is no news.
It's almost like the president doesn't actually matter and the state will violently serve capital regardless.
Almost, but really not at all.