Totally worth watching: Robbie Nicol (of White Man Behind A Desk) explains …”After the protests [at Parliament Buildings, Wellington] in February, I tried to write a monologue about Facebook and radicalisation — and it ended up being 17 minutes long lol.”
Surely Facebook’s twisted, evil, money-at-all-costs approach – radicalising users by placing a higher value on negative, anger/argument-generating content over ‘likes’ – will be another nail in Facebook’s coffin.
They are, simply, an evil corporation and the time will come when having worked at Facebook, in any capacity, will be a mark of shame, like tobacco lobbyists, whaling company PR, and oil & gas spin doctors.
– P
Chantelle Baker’s online following swelled during the occupation with her Facebook live streaming attracting hundreds of thousands of views. She has around 97,000 followers on Facebook and cross-promotes other spreaders of conspiracy and disinformation, such as anti-vaccination group Voices For Freedom.
Meta, which owns Facebook, would not comment on individual pages but has repeatedly removed Voices For Freedom from its platform.
“Like the rest of New Zealand, we were shocked at the violent events outside Parliament earlier this year. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, we have taken aggressive steps to limit harmful misinformation by removing content, sharing content with independent fact-checkers for review, and banning accounts for repeated violation of our policies,” said Nick McDonnell, head of Public Policy for Meta New Zealand and Pacific Islands.
from Politicians realised too late that the protest was ‘out of control’
Oh, OK, not completely brain dead then …