Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags

Deleted my fb account today. Instagram too. Hadn't really used it other than to talk to my parents. My mom quit too, so I told my dad we can chat over sms and use other video platforms. Been a Facebook user since 2010, a little sad that the site has degraded so much

I've just sent messages to my elderly relatives that they'll no longer find me on Facebook.

That was my only remaining reason for using it. I've never had a use for Instagram, or Xitter for that matter.

Let's not forget to blast the assholes responsible for this (the individuals, not the company) as we all leave the crappy platforms so it doesn't affect us personally.

Yes the correct answer is don't be on facebook or anything it owns, but also nobody should be doing this, anywhere. Keep the heat on the bastards.

It is almost like meta is a terrible company.

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.

Ditch the apps.

You are not married to apps.

Anyone on Lemmy should understand that. We came here from elsewhere.

DITCH THE APPS.

Meta under fire ...

... and not a single person stopped using it.

Lol not even a fuckin full day.

Do your service and convince your parents to leave every Meta product.

Right-Wingers were never anti-censorship look at how they handle books in school.

Looks like Zuckerberg got into Trump's face paint

If you search #trans, or #transgender, or #lgbt absolutely no results lol. Searching just #lgb works fine though. Awesome

still feel like there's need to be federated with threads?

Holy Shit. It's real and it's nuts.

I only use the website instead of the app but searching for #Democrat results in démoratie and démocratieparticipative while searching for #Republican results in republican, republican party, republicanmemes, republicanwomen, republicans.

It's shocking to experience this sort of censorship in real time.

I wish I had more influence to get people to more to a federated platform. Me quitting IG isn't going to do anything other than cut myself off from information I occasionally want to access (local business events).

"What are you going to do? Leave? Hahaha."

--Marky Mark, probably

The world weeps, however the US is the embodiment of the skinner meme.

Wait, I thought they were going to end censorship.

META wouldn't go and just lie like that, would they?

I rarely use Instagram but am about to delete my account there. Will be ceasing to use Whatsapp too, and hopefully deleting my account. I'm otherwise off of meta products. Only problem I foresee is that when traveling outside the US, everyone tends to want to use WhatsApp.

Edit: anyone recommend a WhatsApp alternative? Privacy and widespread adoption are the top concerns. I'm defaulting back to Signal, but I know there have been some issues with it

One user said their cousin noticed a notification about Trump changing his profile picture.

Some quality reporting there.

So no auto-follow for me on any three accounts.

However #Democrat on Insta returns no hashtags

AUTO FOLLOWING? HOLY SHIT.

Honestly I'm sure they will come up with some bullshit excuse for the others. But the auto-follow? Damn.

Everyone who is semi intelligent knew this was going to happen. People need to quit acting like theybare surprised. It's going to get worse, and the only people protected are rich white people who suck up to evil. Even then you're not safe. Bumpler was good friends with Epstein until Epstein bought a piece of property that krumpler wanted. That's why they stopped being friends. It wasn't the sex trafficking that turned him away.

"Under fire". Wake me up when someone actually does something about it.

I wonder if people will finally leave things like xitter and FB. So many people that ARE politically aware are still using those fucking sites, giving all kinds of excuses (but my followers).

And I'm not just talking about corporate stooges working for the "liberal media".

Ugh. And they can do whatever they want. The vast majority of people, even if they care a little, won't jump ship.

Social media is looking more like a religion these days.

To the surprise of no one, their accusations turned out to be a plan of action.

Unless they just rolled back the change, #democrat hashtag is definitely working on Instagram:

The consequences: none

Zuck...you've got orange...all over your face and throat...

closed my treads and instagram accounts today. unfortunately, I still need a FB. For now.

Was there a story of people automatically following Biden or Obama when they got sworn in?

I don't remember a red tsunami of tears then.

Justo tried the search, so I guess its working again?

Patiently waiting for Pixelfed to get really good and stable and Flashes to launch.