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Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook #Hate, unfortunately, sells. Right-wing extremism researcher Kaz Ross told *ABC” that #Meta’s “financial model is to reward content creators who get engagement, and as we know, the best way of getting engagement is to produce rage bait, extremist material, aggravating material: anything that will get people upset and arguing is the best way to get engagement.” It’s another example of how quickly Meta dropped its once-stricter content moderation policies when Donald Trump returned to the White House. Shortly before his second inauguration, Meta loosened its standards around hate speech, particularly on topics like gender identity and immigration, two of the far right’s favorite issues. #Facebook is far from the only platform that’s gotten alarmingly chummy with extremists. Earlier this year, #X awarded the $1 million first place prize of its article writing contest to a proudly self-proclaimed Nazi. In a statement, Meta didn’t address specific questions about the pages it was awarding money to, but said it was “important to distinguish between speech that is offensive and content that could potentially lead to offline violence”. “Such speech may be offensive to many, but it is not Meta’s role to police offensiveness,” the company added #HateSpeach #GenderIdentity #immigration #suprematists #ABC #newsToday #extremists #Nazis #Prize ##violence #monetazation #finance #RightWing #US #USpol #politics #globalisation #Australia #offensiveness #financialModel #Police #Futurism @leavex@mastodon.socialhttps://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-caught-paying-nazis-to-post-on-facebook

@floridamarx@mastodon.social yes, this is the direction, and solidarity.

@evan@cosocial.ca Shall “we” know if would that be ok for that person? Idk

The Big Tech Lobby Playbook How Big Tech’s power has rewritten digital rules globally Big Tech has taken corporate lobbying to a whole new level. These companies have an influence that even Big Tobacco and Big Oil could only dream of. The tech giants have bottomless pockets and a powerful playbook they deploy to influence and shape laws all around the world. The strategies set out in the ‘Big Tech Lobby Playbook’ are not unique to Big Tech, but they are being employed in ways that are distinctive to the tech giants. These companies don’t just engage with lawmakers and policy processes – they shape the very environment in which laws are imagined and debated. At the heart of this is the sheer extent of these firms’ monopoly power. Big Tech firms that control the digital infrastructure of today’s societies have not been afraid to weaponise it to advance their policy agendas. Having allowed companies to gain such market dominance, governments now find themselves hostages to it. This sets their playbook apart from standard corporate lobbying. https://www.somo.nl/big-tech-lobby-playbook/ #BigTech #Technology #society #SME #EU #Brazil #Australia #Kenya #India #government #corporations #democracy

@Scalva@mastodon.bida.im Che ambiente, accogliente!

@floridamarx@mastodon.social It is when the economic “bubble” created in the States, no? And people of course got poorer and destroyed global economy. What I and others are afraid of the data centers and Technofeudalism is going on right now, and not only that. :-(