Meta/Facebook flees progressive conference after protests erupt over the company's conservatism

[cbabe]

https://www.rawstory.com/meta-facebook-flees-netroots-nation/

Meta/Facebook flees progressive conference after protests erupt over the company's conservatism

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Attendees and 101.1 The Wiz radio station revealed that the Facebook Users Union organizers attacked the company's signs with their own, attacking them for collecting private and sensitive data from those seeking abortions.

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At the same time, Facebook has allowed fake pharmaceutical producers to offer "abortion pill reversal" drugs, Media Matters reported.

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A 2021 analysis by The Washington Post revealed that the site gives an advantage to conservatives on the platform. Facebook says that the right-wing is just better at stoking fears and responses than progressives. The reality is that Facebook has allowed false information to stand from conservative sources. While there are supposed to be protections in place to stop fake news, it typically takes so long for the review and removal that the story has already spread across the platform. As a result, the top 25 posts on Facebook are very rarely from Democratic sources.

Late last year, a Facebook whistleblower told Congress "she studied how the social network's algorithm amplified misinformation and was exploited by foreign adversaries."

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[BigmanPigman]

1. "American GREED"

has Fuckerberg's picture next to it in the dictionary.

[Heather MC]

2. Facebook has lost it's ever loving mind.

They locked my Facebook account July 23rd because they said I must do a Facebook protect 2 step process well I did some research.

And they were only extending this to people they deem to be political activist and and politicians

I am neither I'm just an American voter with an opinion and Kenyan and Facebook decided to label me a political activist. Even though nowhere on my Facebook page did I self identify myself as that.

And so I wonder what Facebook is doing with all of these people that they're making do this 2 step process I feel like they're collecting a list.

And since Facebook has a history of accepting Russian rubles as payment for American political ads

I'm not inclined to trust them. So I didn't do the Facebook project and I got locked out of all of my accounts
🤷🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🖕🏾

[ShazzieB]

3. Fuck Mark Zuckerberg SOOO hard! 🤬

That is all!

[Inkey]

4. I watched it happening

Friday at Netroots PGH just after the morning session the attendees of women's rights marched directly to the Meta booth
at the Town Hall. It was wonderful to see! They were rightfully steamed at FB for not only collecting women's data and then
releasing it to state authorities. they made it clear that FB is not welcome to our gathering.

[blogslug]

5. I don't run Netroots Nation

But if I did I would not have invited Meta.

[Skittles]

6. it absolutely disgusts me how many people have sucked into the FB borg

STOP SUPPORTING THAT POS SITE