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Geoff Anderson's avatar

One more pull quote:

"Yet Zuckerberg could not perpetuate these disgusting acts without the help of people like Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz, who saw to it that Meta shut down CrowdTangle, a public insights tool from Meta that allowed researchers to easily analyze what was happening on Facebook. Horwitz reports in Broken Code that Facebook — led by Alex Schultz — killed CrowdTangle because reporter Kevin Roose kept posting a list of Facebook’s most-engaged-with content, and that Facebook was dominated with right wing lunacy and misinformation like “Plandemic,” a COVID conspiracy film that Joel Kaplan, head of Meta’s public policy team, initially blocked the health team from removing until Roose reported that it was Facebook’s number one post."

Yeah, when the public facing analytics tool (CrowdTangle was independent until FB bought it) was used to prove that instead of right wing content being submersed, it was instead the top performing content, they Just. Shut. It. Down.

Ostriches whose heads in the sand to avoid the truth. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Jim Jordan!

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Kay-El's avatar

I gave up FacePlant before I started with Twitter (which I also dumped) so maybe 2011? I started getting friend requests from people I hadn’t seen in years who had become religious nuts or shared TMI. It was easier to just dump it than unfriend someone. Alas, I’m on Instagram, but for family reasons and you’d have to know it was me. Private account and I don’t accept requests from people I don’t know. Requests have dropped off significantly from strangers, freaks and other assorted weirdos, so I’m happy to stay on for a bit longer.

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