Facebook stocks tank big time after being caught violating privacy rights

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Liberal or not, they suck. Social media is destroying society little by little by its utter superficiality and Facebook is largely responsible for it.
I think destroying society is a bit much. I think harming communication makes more sense. But it has benefits too
 

rainerann

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There is actually a delete Facebook movement right now that I never expected to see. https://uproxx.com/news/delete-facebook-hashtag-movement-reactions/

I don't use Facebook because I just have never really liked it. Although, it is interesting for me to see this happening after I witnessed what a presidential election is like with full-fledged social media platforms up and running. I wasn't really aware of what was going on behind the scenes or how the data was being used, but if these things are true, there is a lot of a lot of data from this last election that could be used for purposes of political propaganda.

Facebook was a continual presidential debate for about six months. So I find this whole thing very interesting, in addition to the issue of censoring people on Facebook. I have literally felt frustrated by what is promoted on Facebook before. It was interesting for me to try out a different social media site and see how many people are talking about being banned from Facebook or deleting Facebook to contrast the experience or get a visual of what censorship looks like.

There is a site called Gab that is supposed to replace Twitter. I like it okay. It is new so it is a smaller in terms of contents. https://gab.ai/home There is another site called voiceanything that is supposed to be a substitute for something like Facebook. They are both somewhat small, but there is a lot of discussion about leaving Facebook on Gab that people around here might find interesting.
 

TempestOfTempo

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There is actually a delete Facebook movement right now that I never expected to see. https://uproxx.com/news/delete-facebook-hashtag-movement-reactions/

I don't use Facebook because I just have never really liked it. Although, it is interesting for me to see this happening after I witnessed what a presidential election is like with full-fledged social media platforms up and running. I wasn't really aware of what was going on behind the scenes or how the data was being used, but if these things are true, there is a lot of a lot of data from this last election that could be used for purposes of political propaganda.

Facebook was a continual presidential debate for about six months. So I find this whole thing very interesting, in addition to the issue of censoring people on Facebook. I have literally felt frustrated by what is promoted on Facebook before. It was interesting for me to try out a different social media site and see how many people are talking about being banned from Facebook or deleting Facebook to contrast the experience or get a visual of what censorship looks like.

There is a site called Gab that is supposed to replace Twitter. I like it okay. It is new so it is a smaller in terms of contents. https://gab.ai/home There is another site called voiceanything that is supposed to be a substitute for something like Facebook. They are both somewhat small, but there is a lot of discussion about leaving Facebook on Gab that people around here might find interesting.
Gab is interesting. Its pretty right-leaning in some respects.... but if they want to honor freedom of speech (which they have a legitimate claim to being denied on various other sites), they have to accept the perspectives and dialog there which are counter to their own.
 
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