Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content
Just what 2025 needs to really push it into dystopia.
Zuckerberg’s announcement about Meta’s new-found prioritisation of “free expression” on Facebook and Instagram is, to me, nothing short of a sign of an increasingly horrific future for life on that all-too-ubiquitous platform. I loathe almost every word, and certainly the underlying conspiracy-laden, responsibility-shirking, favour-currying sentiment of it all.
I mean, any weird tech billionaire that thinks checking facts is “too political” and takes the wastelands of x.com as the paradigmatic model of good information hygiene is either selling their entire soul to the Trump / Musk ingratiation train or, perhaps worse, has become a true believer in their cause.
The 5 minute video itself is probably worth a look, particularly if you imagine the reaction must be an exaggeration. To be honest, the first time I saw it I thought it might be a deepfake - especially when I got to the line about how they’re basically moving some of their employees to Texas because California is just too woke, plus when they said they’re going to copy X’s ideas - but apparently it’s real, unless literally everyone fell for it.