Facebook News to launch in Brazil, India, UK, says Facebook

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/25/facebook-news-to-launch-in-bra.html

3 countries with extreme right wing leaders at the moment. How unsurprising.

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Because poisoning the discourse through a complete lack of standards in one country isn’t enough for Zuck.

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the tech business is about scale. You’ve built a machine to amplify rightwing conspiracies and content and you look for places where you can use it.

I’m assuming the version for Turkey and the Philippines is next up

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Am I the only one that thinks the mouth-for-eyes thing need to be retired?

Fuck you 2020. You’re gonna run and run at this rate aren’t you?

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