2y ago

Thousands of fake Facebook accounts shut down by Meta were primed to polarize voters ahead of 2024

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Thank God they took down thousands of the millions of sock puppet accounts!
If Meta suddenly cares, they must have been left-leaning and poised to have a real impact.
- For Meta to find the left it would have to lean so far over. Just finding center may require a lean so far as to topple.
  One doesn't make money selling granola to hippies; it's sex and hate and fear and guns for fat old white hillbilly men where the actual money's at.
- Could it be the ad drain on x when musk musked it up? Maybe they want a place for the x ex advertisers to go? I agree they didn't do it out of love for democracy or seeking truth.
…and 10 minutes later there are twice as many taking their place.
Surprised they weren't promoting them instead.
- The interconnected accounts pulled content from both liberal and conservative sources, an indication that its goal was not to support one side or the other but to exaggerate partisan divisions and further inflame polarization.
  See, both sides, Facebook doesn't like both sides.
Phew, imagine what a disaster it would be if, hypothetically of course, the electorate was deeply polarized during an election.
Close one.
You mean like there were in 2016 when Meta was okie-fuckin dokie with it and refused to help or do any goddamned thing? Deleted some of those accounts you say? Oh how nice. I guess everything's just dandy with the ol' facepals these days eh
- I retired in 2019 and spent months tracing accounts and reporting fake accounts to facebook and never had one account removed from my reports. I found the Dorr brothers alt accounts and exposed their astroturfing various gun groups and anti-quarantine groups that acted like local grassroots groups for a large number of locations. A Washington Post article (and several other news orgs picked up the story) was published after I contacted a reporter about what I found and handed over the evidence I found. Facebook didn't remove one single group or account linked to the Dorr Brothers.
  The point I'm getting to is I just had a post of mine removed two days ago for "Cybersecurity" reasons. The post was made in August and was nothing more than me explaining Project 2025 and contained quotes from the Project 2025 manifesto. No links and in no way could be a threat to anyone's security. Facebook is anti-democracy and a threat.

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