Did you think social media was toxic? Well, it’s about to get so much worse.
Because Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram and Threads, is getting rid of fact-checkers and recommending more political content.
Not only that, but they’re seriously wearing their “hateful content” policies. Like, Facebook is explicitly allowing people to say that being a member of the LGBTQ community is a mental illness.
That uncle who got really weird after spending too much time on Facebook during the lockdowns?
His daily injection of black-tar disinformation is about to be supercharged.
But it’s not just your uncle who is getting radicalized on these platforms — politicians, policymakers and decision-makers are also having their brains cooked on the internet.
And even when they aren’t fully brainrotted, the less ethical among them see a path to power based on the lies and fear people internalize on these platforms.
Let’s talk about these new changes and what they mean for the world.
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