Mark Zuckerberg is More Interested in the Metaverse Than Election Integrity - Sl...
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The New York Times reports Meta's core election team has shrunk significantly since 2020. With the US midterms approaching, a reduced election team at Meta could mean less enforcement against misinformation. Whereas it used to comprise over 300 people, now 60 people spend their time focused on election security and some additional employees divide their time between elections and other projects, sources told The Times.
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Elections are already ruined, but the creative, fascinating, user-driven metaverse with VRChat and independent content creators is ripe for being destroyed
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The Ministry of Truth doesn't have the stranglehold on the public that it so recently enjoyed.
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While detecting and preventing foreign government arms from running ad campaigns on their platform designed to influence American voters, at least without the funding being explicit, is a good thing to do, it's not like we really trust Facebook's team to be the arbiter truth on their platform. The best we can hope for is authentication to know who is saying what.
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He's a CEO of a tech company not an electoral oversight board. The person who runs Pizza Hut probably doesn't give a hoot about the strength of swimming pool liners nor should he.
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Itâ(TM)s all part of the plan to not only regulate social media, but nationalise it.
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Electoral integrity issues are his concern the same way pharmaceutical companies are concerned with drug laws, the societal and ethical consequences of the product they create, and can't just claim they're mere chemical companies.
Facebook peddles a an addictive product too.
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Bullshit. The last entity anyone should trust to be an arbitrator of Truth is fucking FaceZuck.
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They are starting to frame the narrative for the inevitable Democratic defeat in November. It isn't their policies and the terrible results that cost them the upcoming election, it is because of a couple of ads seen by a few thousand people.
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in election integrity, beyond faking the amount of furrowed-brow concern that was required to get him through the Trump years. In reality, lies and misinformation generate clicks. Trump was good for business. He's ANTI-election integrity.
In the end, I'm fine with this. We're a capitalist society. Businesses are NOT meant to solve societal problems or deal with larger issues. The first reason for a business to exist is to MAKE PROFIT. Their second reason for existing is to MAKE PROFIT. Can you guess what the 3rd through 10th reasons are?
Any larger societal issue is supposed to be decided by the three branches of government, in the form of laws and regulations. Now, our legislature has largely abandoned their post, and our court system is busy dismantling half a century of progress, but those are separate issues. Businesses make $$$$. That's all they do. The current fad of executives who "care" is complete illusion. But it's doing real harm. A lot of people are expecting companies to solve societal problems. The sooner we break that thinking, the sooner we can elect officials with a mandate to actually do their frikkin jobs.-
>Trump
irrelevant
> The first reason for a business to exist is to MAKE PROFIT. Their second reason for existing is to MAKE PROFIT
This is not a good thing.
in the form of laws and regulations.
And regulatory capture means companies whose job it is to make profit and also to make profit get to change those laws. Expecting less social responsibility from companies is NOT a step toward anything good. -
I don't disagree. But it doesn't take much insight to realize that it's easier for most businesses to make money in a stable society. There are, of course, notable exceptions, such as the "defense" industry and the larger energy companies (but not their distributors, who will also suffer from the chaos). Who knows, maybe the company once known as FB is one of them?
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Define that or fuck off. "Stability" isn't some known quantity and "stability" isn't always the highest virtue. The Soviet's GULAG system delivered stability for the Party for decades.
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Businesses are not meant to solve social problems. But governments are meant to remove those that cause social problems from society.
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Wrong.
Zuckerberg, like all psychopaths, only cares about one thing: himself. He's not anti- or pro- anything unless it serves his interests.
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It's interesting how much the purpose of corporations has changed. At one point, in order to form a corporation you had to convince a legislative body that your proposed corporation was in the public interest, and they had to pass a law bringing your specific corporation into existence. We've come a long way from that starting point - as you point out, almost to the opposite point, where corporations are expected to have nothing whatsoever to do with the public interest beyond following the law and making
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Businesses can exist for other reasons. Profit is almost always amongst the reasons, and usually first, but it's not always first. Some businesses feel that once they've made enough money to pay themselves and the workers and cover expenses, that they can do other things. Now when a company is public, it does change somewhat, because you have public owners. But even then the board of directors can decide that it is indeed worthwhile for the company to not be 100% profit driven. Sometimes this is indeed
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Cool, I can dig the Ferengi vibe.
Still, it's really not clear to me how a "Metaverse", even in its most generous reading, would MAKE PROFIT for anyone.
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Yep. 'Murica, the land of the philistines that managed to go from barbarism to decadence & skip civilisation. 'Murica's whole legal system was set up by British colonial slave traders to maximise profits & minimise profiteers' responsibility. Like the thoughts & prayers after every school shooting, you only pretend to care.
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Privacy Rapist is More Interested in His Ego Than Election Integrity.
There FTFY.
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"Privacy Rapist" -- Worst FF extension ever; sticking with Privacy Badger/Possum...
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This metaverse is the next big scam⦠it will replace crypto (anything) as the top billing for the next batch of greater fools. Zuck knows where he can get his bread buttered⦠after all, he is master at making money off things he is given for free, but used deception to get⦠i.e. your personal data. Itâ(TM)s made him one of the wealthiest people in the world⦠and sees this scam as an extension of that⦠the name change from Facebook wasnâ(TM)t w
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I thought elections were already secured? 2020 was the most secured election in history, I am assured. Why would he need to focus on that?
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Elections are only secure if the favored party wins, otherwise it is fraud.
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Because while it may have been the most secured election in US history (not world history maybe), that does not mean that attacks upon the integrity have stopped or are even subsiding. Russia is going to interfere again. China is going to try to interfere. Absolutely Trump will throw all sorts of wrenches into the gears. But hopefully he's given up on Facebook though, he's too busy on Truth sending out Truths to be re-Truthed (seriously, they call it ReTruth, I couldn't make up something that funny if I
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Why is it okay for us to interfere in other countries politics but not okay for them to buy some ads? Pretty sure free speech is protected under the Constitution for everyone, not just US citizens. Therefore, I don't really see the problem with other nations buying ads. No different then my national media.
Now if Russia or China had actually hacked into the voting machines and then changes the votes, now THAT would be interference. Buying ads is not interference.
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Businesses will focus on business needs. If they don't, they eventually stop existing.
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"Election Integrity" (tm) isn't Zuckerberg's responsibility. Only people that want a Ministry Of Truth deleting everything and everyone they don't like believe Facebook and Zuckerberg have any role in elections or "protecting Democracy." And fuck all of those people.
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... and even when this was found out, the media didn't retract their stories.
But Facebook ACTUALLY tried to manipulate the election by 'Editorial Trending' non trending articles smearing Trump via fake news websites - like heatstreet.com (check out their DNS transfer history).
So meta not being interested in elections integrity? only as far as it can be involved in manipulating them.
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It will offer Zuck as an example.
Words are great.
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Facebook is already banned in Russia. What more can it do to ensure there is no Russian interference?
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