what other word is there for an entity that willfully fans the flames of eradication other than sheer pure EVIL?
dude is explicitly throwing shitloads of gasoline onto the fire of the trans genocide for profit and probably just funsies too
zuck pretty much saw what happened to the rohingya and thought to himself "we should have an encore genocide here at home"
meta platforms have ALWAYS been a shithole filled with the most vile bigotry imaginable
but it's still weird that they've switched to openly touting that as a benefit now
like... reporting queerphobia on there has basically never done anything anyway
but this is still a step up, proudly displaying fascism on their sleeve
And speaking of leaks @caseynewton on Platformer and Sam Biddle in the Intercept have details on the new Meta guidelines and the guidance they're giving moderators
CW: some really sickening examples of anti-trans hate speech now explicitly allowed by Meta
https://www.platformer.news/meta-new-trans-guidelines-hate-speech/ (partially paywalled, but the examples are visibile even without logging in)
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/09/facebook-instagram-meta-hate-speech-content-moderation/
On @404mediaco , @jasonkoebler reports that "‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now", with employees very upset about the changes -- and highlights that these didn't go through the usual processes of broud employee feedback.
The paywalled article also has a lot of quotes from internal discussions. Meta's clearly leaking like a seive right about now ....
yoooooooo new article that mentions fedipact!!!
Wow, that didn't take long.
Threads is now a hate site by design.
I'm glad Aus.Social decided to join #Fedipact and outright block Threads.
https://bsky.app/profile/alli.gay/post/3lfdjnnko5c2i
@stux This is why I moved away from mastodon.social last year, to a server that is part of the #fedipact
Those admins knew what was up. Solidarity with victims of hate speech, not other techbros propagating this.
And here's an excellent roudup of the changes by Ina Fried on @AxiosNews, including a good quote from @JenniOlsonSF
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/meta-moderation-transgender-women-hate
Between the lines: Even the language of the new policy itself suggests animus against gay and trans people.
- The policy uses the words "homosexuality" and "transgenderism" — the former is an outdated term, and the latter is used nearly exclusively by opponents of transgender rights.
- "For a legitimate company to employ intentionally anti-LGBT dog whistle language in such a dehumanizing and overly bigoted way in its own hate speech policy is beyond comprehension," said Jenni Olson, senior director for social safety at GLAAD.
#meta #FediPact #lgbtq #lgbtqia
And from @juliaangwin.com's newsletter:
"This week, Mark Zuckerberg revealed his true colors in what can only be described as a pledge of allegiance to incoming president Donald Trump. In a video message, he declared that Meta was abandoning fact-checking and dialing back on content moderation — a clear capitulation to right wing demands for less “censorship” of their speech that was often found to be in violation of Meta’s prohibitions against hate speech and incitement to violence.
As I wrote in my latest New York Times Opinion piece (gift link), the billionaire Facebook founders’ actions show us what it looks like when a mature company stops innovating on its products and instead seeks to maintain its market power through political influence."
https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/archive/heavy-lies-mark-zuckerbergs-crown/
And here's her gift link to the NYTimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-trump-meta-lobbying.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk4.bvEF.EXfKAyCs6FzR&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&utm_source=JuliaAngwin&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=heavy-lies-mark-zuckerbergs-crown
(Julia Angwin's also at @Julia, but is more active on Bluesky)
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#FediPact #meta #threads #MutualAid #TransCrowdFund