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Facebook Is Hiding Heather Cox Richardson's Posts

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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.

> 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.

I've been assuming that these are rug-pull shitcoin scams, since that's what they were before the election. Has that changed?

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.

Real friends tell friends they are being stupid when they are being stupid.

I agree. But it's a friend through preschool and we're not super close yet.

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.

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

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That's not a great advertising slogan, unless the goal is to drive people who still possess their wits off their platform if they can still be deprogrammed before its too late.

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.

Does it help if you buy a blue checkmark?

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

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

You've literally misused that word.

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