Metawatch. (Formerly known as Facebookwatch.)

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I guess that’s a thing that we all thought was happening and turned out we were all right…

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How influencers and algorithms mobilize propaganda — and distort reality

The engagement-fuelled logic of social media has bequeathed us a world in which what’s trending is a yardstick for what’s true.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02917-1

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recent ads on facebook.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/24/technology/mark-zuckerberg-trump-politics.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

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“I think individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content in the grand scheme of this,” Zuckerberg said

The “grand scheme” is probably his stock portfolio.

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“If they demanded that we don’t use their content, then we just wouldn’t use their content.”

Then don’t, and see how much value you actually get without ripping people off. :angry:

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Another finger on the scale

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Meta introducing its newest product: birth control

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1ft0ond/meta_introducing_its_newest_product_birth_control/

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Even without the joke, this is amazingly stupid. They’ve spent a load of time and money creating a product that everyone agreed was stupid and legally dodgy over ten years ago, when it was called google glass.

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He read Snow Crash as a pre-teen and thought that going gargoyle sounded cool.

All these assholes are emotionally stuck in their childhoods.

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Setting the stage for his midlife crisis to cause trouble for others

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We need to formalize this nomenclature. Millennials are Gen Y. Boomers are Gen V. Jones are Gen W.

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