The author is:
Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times
In case anybody is curious about his credibility.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
The author is:
Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times
In case anybody is curious about his credibility.
And what is Epoch Time? I've used 2 search engines (QWANT and Google) and all I get is something about Unix time stamps.
That said, the article reeks of conspiracy nut.
The Epoch Times is a publication from Falun Gong. Falun Gong is a Chinese cult equivalent to The Church of Scientology.
A copy-paste error on my part.
Thanks, that's crazy!!
What an absolute shit post.
Might as well ask "Have you stopped molesting goats?"
We were supposed to stop?!
Only in Wales and New Zealand. That's sheep country.
Lol talkin shit about based welsh people while being aussie. Ok meight.
Why did Zuckerberg choose now to make this announcement and publicly reveal the inside play?
There's actually a tidbit that the author notes that points at the obvious reason for it.
In his letter to Congressional investigators, he flat-out said what everyone else has been saying for years now.
In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content...
The author then goes on to say though:
A few clarifications. The censorship began much earlier than that, from March 2020 at the very least if not earlier.
What's significant about that? Trump was president then.
So Zuckerberg is rather obviously trying to pin entirely on the Biden administration a set of policies that were already in place under Trump.
To what end? Obviously to do the same thing he did in 2016 and 2020 - to overtly promote Trump.
This particular one certainly not coincidentally plays into the whole Republican narrative that the Democrats are oppressive and dishonest, which in turn is meant to provide a context for their intention to dispute the election results when Trump loses. Zuckerberg is simply doing his part to further that narrative.
I love how he just uncritically and with absolute credulity accepts excerpts from a letter written by Zuck with no supporting evidence, no examples of what "pressure" looked like, etc.
I can't believe these people are still so butt hurt about the perfectly reasonable actions taken by the US and State governments and governments worldwide in response to a once in a century global respiratory DEADLY pandemic that killed millions and millions of humans.
And as far as FB (and other social media) goes, fuck em. And fuck the users. Types of speech can be illegal. Defamation (lying about someone) and false advertising (lying about a product or service) can be illegal even though it's definitely speech. These have "lying" in common, which to me implies there must be something about lying (specifically misrepresenting reality) that weakens typical 1st Amendment protections.
But it's clear what this guy is most sad about is the traffic he got while his article about Woodstock going on during a lull in the comparatively mild pandemic that was "active" at the time (no meaningful H3N2 activity in the US at the time) went away when FB rightly changed the algorithm to not boost his stupid irrelevant "analysis."
But people like the writer of this article are either too addled by conspiracy galaxy brain or too committed to lying for money to care that they could really hurt people with their bullshit.
This guy needs to go to something less harmful like selling homeopathic tinctures or lying about the moon landing or flat earth or something.
I like how this has a -19 score and yet it’s still being served up to me for some reason.
Showed up for me at -41.
The Lemmy default algorithm isn't great.
You're following the Technology community?
We cannot overestimate the effect of Facebook on the mind.
Oh wait your serious?
Because he can see the writing on the wall. He's going to act as though he's always been the good guy too, wait and see.
e: never mind, it's something unhinged. I should have known.