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Facebook Is Hiding Heather Cox Richardson's Posts

38 points by nicpottier 1y ago

oldpersonintx 1y ago
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ilrwbwrkhv 1y ago
Facebook is literally a scummy website which people use because others use it. This level of sheep like behaviour in humans is fascinating.
- m0d0nne11 1y ago
  You've literally misused that word.
zelon88 1y ago
I've noticed that the amount of click-farm generated spam from third world countries pushing Tesla related propaganda has spiked tremendously since inauguration day. Keep an eye open for AI generated images of Musk in front of fictional technology, with captions that read things like "Musk releases NEW $40 cell phone to the world!" It's all fake fluff designed to offset the genuine negativity he's creating for himself. I just can't figure out if it's paid promotional shilling, or shilling by unfriendly nations just pig-piling on the divisive rhetoric. Either way, when the political pendulum swings back to the left I intend to urge my elected officials to track down and physically destroy the bot / click farms using military force if needed. I don't mean investigations and police. I mean we fly a Tomahawk through the window. We're at the point now where foreign political interference is amounting to an aggravated act of war. Even if it's solicited by one party or another, stay out of it.
- sockaddr 1y ago
  This stuff literally works. I know someone personally that while at a kid's soccer game said to me: "Hey did you see that new engine Elon made? It runs on water and he's going to be putting it in all of his cars! He's also trying to mine H3 from the moon!" Because I'm friends with this person and I like them I try to play dumb as to not be insulting and ask them to pull it up and show me. Once he does I say "oh that looks like it's AI generated" and he sort of agrees. I don't think this person has a low IQ or anything, but I do consider them sort of ignorant (but not typical racist Trump supporter ignorant), just low-information. We need to try to politely call this stuff out when our friends and family are being tricked because it is doing them (and us) real harm.
  - blitzar 1y ago
    Real friends tell friends they are being stupid when they are being stupid.
    - sockaddr 1y ago
      I agree. But it's a friend through preschool and we're not super close yet.
- bryanlarsen 1y ago
  I've been assuming that these are rug-pull shitcoin scams, since that's what they were before the election. Has that changed?
- gs17 1y ago
  > It's all fake fluff designed to offset the genuine negativity he's creating for himself. Is it? All the fake Musk things I've seen are, yes, positive, but they're also just scams (e.g. ads for a "Quantum AI" for picking stocks that he invented, where you get a free Tesla if you don't make a million dollars). I guess for the victims that end up in denial it boosts their opinion of him.
4ndrewl 1y ago
"This is a historian documenting power. And that history — our history — is now being selectively hidden." No, posting on FB is just creating content to drive advertising to one place or another. It's their platform they can do what they want with it.
- BizarroLand 1y ago
  Your reply is the kind of truth that minimizes honest response to active harm, like a mom telling her crying child, "I didn't hit you that hard" when it's the strike itself that is the problem.
  - 4ndrewl 1y ago
    It really isn't. Facebook and Zuckerberg worked hard to get Trump into power. It's naive pomposity of the highest order to suggest that they some shouldn't have the right to remove content not suited to their agenda.
    - BizarroLand 1y ago
      I would argue that if something is illegal but it is acceptable, right, good, or moral, (depending on which reference framework is appropriate) a decent person or corporation should commit that crime as often as is frugally possible, e.g. "Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men" Vice versa, that mythical decent corporation person should not do things that are legal if they are not acceptable, or right, or good, or moral, no matter what other incentives are attached to that action, e.g "Facebook doing an authoritarianism to erase objections". Thusly, when "Facebook does an authoritarianism" is the topic of conversation, we can say, "Facebook is bad" without wannabe Cartmans showing up in a psychological crossdress yelling, "uh uh, I do what I want" on behalf of the un-decent corporation.
      - 4ndrewl 1y ago
        Agreed, and none of which invalidates my comment - it's a platform operated by an organisation that employ whatever rules and justifications, no matter how specious, that they see fit. What it most definitely isn't is an immutable historical record, and anyone making claims to that effect is deluded or naieve.
Animats 1y ago
Does it help if you buy a blue checkmark?
- m0d0nne11 1y ago
  Apparently not, as I'm pretty sure she had one next to her name when she got "disappeared"
tracker1 1y ago
I'm not sure if this is really surprising to anyone... FB has a history of quietly, and sometimes loudly suppressing voices, content and views. For a long while it was conservatives, libertarians, etc. Now, it seems to be anyone expressing anything against the current establishment.
ChrisArchitect 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Cox_Richardson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Cox_Richardson
mindcrash 1y ago
This is what happens when Zuck really starts to dislike you. When you contact Facebook they will either simply say "Whoops, probably a bug" or nothing at all Happened earlier to a long term internet friend of mine.

38 points by nicpottier 1y ago

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Facebook is literally a scummy website which people use because others use it. This level of sheep like behaviour in humans is fascinating.

m0d0nne11 1y ago
You've literally misused that word.

zelon88 1y ago

I've noticed that the amount of click-farm generated spam from third world countries pushing Tesla related propaganda has spiked tremendously since inauguration day. Keep an eye open for AI generated images of Musk in front of fictional technology, with captions that read things like "Musk releases NEW $40 cell phone to the world!" It's all fake fluff designed to offset the genuine negativity he's creating for himself. I just can't figure out if it's paid promotional shilling, or shilling by unfriendly nations just pig-piling on the divisive rhetoric. Either way, when the political pendulum swings back to the left I intend to urge my elected officials to track down and physically destroy the bot / click farms using military force if needed. I don't mean investigations and police. I mean we fly a Tomahawk through the window. We're at the point now where foreign political interference is amounting to an aggravated act of war. Even if it's solicited by one party or another, stay out of it.

sockaddr 1y ago
This stuff literally works. I know someone personally that while at a kid's soccer game said to me: "Hey did you see that new engine Elon made? It runs on water and he's going to be putting it in all of his cars! He's also trying to mine H3 from the moon!" Because I'm friends with this person and I like them I try to play dumb as to not be insulting and ask them to pull it up and show me. Once he does I say "oh that looks like it's AI generated" and he sort of agrees. I don't think this person has a low IQ or anything, but I do consider them sort of ignorant (but not typical racist Trump supporter ignorant), just low-information. We need to try to politely call this stuff out when our friends and family are being tricked because it is doing them (and us) real harm.
- blitzar 1y ago
  Real friends tell friends they are being stupid when they are being stupid.
  - sockaddr 1y ago
    I agree. But it's a friend through preschool and we're not super close yet.
bryanlarsen 1y ago
I've been assuming that these are rug-pull shitcoin scams, since that's what they were before the election. Has that changed?
gs17 1y ago
> It's all fake fluff designed to offset the genuine negativity he's creating for himself. Is it? All the fake Musk things I've seen are, yes, positive, but they're also just scams (e.g. ads for a "Quantum AI" for picking stocks that he invented, where you get a free Tesla if you don't make a million dollars). I guess for the victims that end up in denial it boosts their opinion of him.

4ndrewl 1y ago

"This is a historian documenting power. And that history — our history — is now being selectively hidden." No, posting on FB is just creating content to drive advertising to one place or another. It's their platform they can do what they want with it.

BizarroLand 1y ago
Your reply is the kind of truth that minimizes honest response to active harm, like a mom telling her crying child, "I didn't hit you that hard" when it's the strike itself that is the problem.
- 4ndrewl 1y ago
  It really isn't. Facebook and Zuckerberg worked hard to get Trump into power. It's naive pomposity of the highest order to suggest that they some shouldn't have the right to remove content not suited to their agenda.
  - BizarroLand 1y ago
    I would argue that if something is illegal but it is acceptable, right, good, or moral, (depending on which reference framework is appropriate) a decent person or corporation should commit that crime as often as is frugally possible, e.g. "Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men" Vice versa, that mythical decent corporation person should not do things that are legal if they are not acceptable, or right, or good, or moral, no matter what other incentives are attached to that action, e.g "Facebook doing an authoritarianism to erase objections". Thusly, when "Facebook does an authoritarianism" is the topic of conversation, we can say, "Facebook is bad" without wannabe Cartmans showing up in a psychological crossdress yelling, "uh uh, I do what I want" on behalf of the un-decent corporation.
    - 4ndrewl 1y ago
      Agreed, and none of which invalidates my comment - it's a platform operated by an organisation that employ whatever rules and justifications, no matter how specious, that they see fit. What it most definitely isn't is an immutable historical record, and anyone making claims to that effect is deluded or naieve.

Animats 1y ago

Does it help if you buy a blue checkmark?

m0d0nne11 1y ago
Apparently not, as I'm pretty sure she had one next to her name when she got "disappeared"

tracker1 1y ago

I'm not sure if this is really surprising to anyone... FB has a history of quietly, and sometimes loudly suppressing voices, content and views. For a long while it was conservatives, libertarians, etc. Now, it seems to be anyone expressing anything against the current establishment.

ChrisArchitect 1y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Cox_Richardson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Cox_Richardson

mindcrash 1y ago

This is what happens when Zuck really starts to dislike you. When you contact Facebook they will either simply say "Whoops, probably a bug" or nothing at all Happened earlier to a long term internet friend of mine.